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Hace 4 días · Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the eldest child of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, was born in New York and briefly attended Cornell University. Although her relationship with ER was strained during her youth and again briefly as an adult, the two grew closer particularly after Anna married.
Hace 2 días · Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady and Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. In his remarks President Kennedy discusses the origins of the commission, the necessity for equal pay and working conditions regardless of gender, and issues ...
Hace 5 días · So when her husband became president and she became first lady, Eleanor was ready to make her mark. With characteristic candor, compassion, and courage, she traversed the country and trotted the globe, championing the value and dignity of every human being and transforming the role of first lady.
Hace 3 días · No. 748 was the car that carried President Roosevelt, a bulletproof Packard car, and two Secret Service cars to Warm Springs, Georgia on Roosevelt’s final train trip before he died on April 12 ...
Hace 5 días · Both left important political legacies: Franklin Roosevelt was the president who led the United States through the Great Depression and WWII, and fascinating facts about Eleanor Roosevelt's life include how she organized press conferences at the White House exclusively for women journalists.
Hace 5 días · Roosevelt recovered from his diagnosis of polio here in 1921, began his ascent into politics as a New York senator, was elected President, and inked the New Deal. Eleanor was very involved with...
Hace 4 días · This intimate biography from PBS' American Experience series introduces viewers to both the public and personal lives of Eleanor Roosevelt. Drawing from archival photographs and newsreel footage, as well as interviews with descendants, friends, and scholars, it creates a vibrant picture of a complex woman who shaped the 20th century.
