Authors: Joseph P. Lash
Roosevelt, Eleanor, An American Phenomenon:
almost resigns from UN, 175
children’s quarrels and personal problems a source of anxiety, 177–79
on Fala, 171–72
finishes
This I Remember
, problems with Bruce Gould, 184–85
friendship with David Gurewitsch, 179–80
helping her sons may cause criticism, 169
and her sons’ political ambitions, 173–76
Lucy Mercer affair revived, 186, 187
named correspondent by Earl Miller’s wife, 170
narrates
Peter and the Wolf
, 183
NBC and WNBC talk shows, 181–83
partnership with Elliott at Val-Kill, 168–69
radio program with Anna, 181–82
relationship with Elliott, 171, 178
taste in poetry, 184
Tommy exhausted, her successor, 171
transfer to
McCall’s
, publication and reception of book, 185–86
Val-Kill center for Roosevelt clan, 172–73
Val-Kill in gatherings of family and friends, 176
Val-Kill sanctuary from public life, 171
work schedule, requests, correspondence (1948), 164–68
Roosevelt, Eleanor, feud with Cardinal Spellman over federal aid to parochial schools, 151–63
her concern for Lehman, 161–62
offers to give up UN post over, 157–58
opposition to J. F. Kennedy and, 162
a reconciliation affected, 158–61
Roosevelt, Eleanor, Franklin’s death and, 1–5
children quarrel over political legacy, 8–9
return to Hyde Park, 3–5
return to public activity, 9–11
settling Franklin’s estate, 6–7
V-E Day radio speech, 5–6
Roosevelt, Eleanor, Khrushchev’s visits to Hyde Park, 276–78
criticism of, 277
Roosevelt, Eleanor, round-the-world trip:
in England, 233
in Greece, lunches with king and queen, 231
greeted in New York by Johnny and Anne, reporters ask about McCarthy, 233–34
Hong Kong, 229–30
India and Istanbul stopovers, 230
Japan, 222–29
in Yugoslavia, meets with Tito, 231–34
Roosevelt, Eleanor, summer, 1956:
automobile accident, 44
personal and literary concerns, 43–44
Roosevelt, Eleanor, To the End, Courage:
active despite illness, 334–36
active social life entertaining friends, 317–18
advertises in column to pay taxi fare, 315
celebrating special occasions, 316
children turn to in times of crisis, 323
disease diagnosed as bone-marrow tuberculosis, her decline and death, 339–40
first collapse, she’s hospitalized, 331–33
full of childhood stories, 321
grandchildren special pleasure, 321–22
her work for and advice to Kennedy, 324–27
insists on going to Campobello, her stay there and return to Val-Kill, 333–34
journalistic and literary work, 311–12
knocked down by car, Anna urges she slow down, 312
lack of pretense, no cause too small, 315
lecturer at Brandeis, refuses special treatment, 310
rehospitalized, wishes to die, 337–38
relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy, 328–29
returns home, confused by news of Cuban missile crisis, 338
sense of history and Roosevelt role in it, 320
senses death near, prepares for, 329–31
at seventy-five, famous, successful, active, 309–10
slowing down, aplastic anemia diagnosed, 329
still active (spring, 1962), 331
straitlaced about social behavior, 322–23
television work, margarine commercial, 311
in touch with Robert Kennedy on civil rights, 327
trip to Europe (1962), 329–30
Uncle David’s sallies before Soviet guests, 320–21
use of atom bomb on Japan not a mistake (1959), 326n–27
n
Val-Kill picnics, youth special concern, 314
Val-Kill still home, prefers letters to phone, 313
vision and compassion, the victim’s ally, 312
Roosevelt, Eleanor, trip to Soviet Russia, meeting with Khrushchev, 271–76
return to U.S., thoughts on Khrushchev, 276
Roosevelt, Elliott, 3, 7, 13, 71, 132, 167, 176, 178, 185, 188, 208, 229, 257, 288, 311, 333, 336
attacked for views in
As He Saw It
, Eleanor’s defense of, 78–79
commissions portrait of Eleanor, 171
Eleanor’s advice to stay out of politics, 174
partnership with Eleanor at Val-Kill, 168–69
personality, Eleanor’s special affection for, 170, 178
as producer of Eleanor’s television and radio shows, 181–83
Roosevelt, Faye Emerson,
see
Emerson, Faye
Roosevelt, Franklin, III (grandson), 321, 322, 335
Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr., 8, 20, 79, 132, 167, 170, 174, 175, 176, 202, 204, 205, 208, 288, 291, 299, 300, 302, 305, 315, 319, 324
De Sapio occasions his 1954 defeat, Eleanor’s retaliation, 279–81
“draft Eisenhower” movement and (1948), 139–41
elected to Congress (1949), 173
re-elected, 176
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 12, 13–14, 15, 16, 18, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 52, 74, 75, 82, 103–4, 114, 133, 134, 143, 150, 167, 168, 169, 175, 177, 178, 188, 208–9, 210, 213, 214, 225, 239, 243, 246, 249, 258, 259, 260, 261, 272, 275, 319, 327, 345, 347
death of, settling his estate, 1–9
and Eleanor’s interest in UN, 19
and Jewish refugee question, 99, 101–2, 103
meeting with Joseph Kennedy, 293
postwar Allied unity and, 78
Roosevelt, Hall, 173, 333
Roosevelt, Haven, 321
Roosevelt, James, 3, 5, 7, 14, 79, 132, 167, 169, 205, 208, 284, 288, 300, 324, 332, 339
n
criticizes Truman Doctrine, 135
dressed down by Truman during 1948 campaign, 144
prepares to run for California governorship, 173
seeks Truman’s support, 174
Truman doesn’t endorse, he’s defeated, 175
wins primary, 174
Roosevelt, Janet, 173
Roosevelt, Joan, 337
Roosevelt, John, 173, 208, 230, 233–34, 304, 314, 315, 319, 320, 321, 334
Roosevelt, Minnewa, 223, 227, 229
Roosevelt, Nina, 321–22, 329
Roosevelt, Sally, 304
Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 227
Roosevelt, Theodore, 18, 151, 310
Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr. (grandfather), 321
Roosevelt, Tony, 188
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
, 184
Roosevelt Home Club, 320
Roosevelt I Knew,
The, 44
Roosevelt in Retrospect
, 187
Roosevelt Story, The
, 169
Roper, Elmo, 187
Rosenberg, Anna, 167, 202, 257, 282, 293, 297, 305
Rosenman, Dorothy (Mrs. Samuel), 246
Rosenman, Samuel, 241, 269
Rosenmans, the, 291
Rosenthal, A. M., 220
Rosenwald, Lessing J., 105, 115
Ross, Irwin, 163
Rowan, Carl, 150, 268
Rusk, Dean, 59, 122, 189
Russell & Company, 230
Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer, 4, 6, 208
Rutledge, Wiley, 1
Sachar, Abram, 310, 344
n
St. Laurent, Louis S., 166
St. Lawrence Seaway project, 166
Salter, Baron, 344
n
Sampson, Edith, 175, 193
Sandburg, Carl, 184
Sandifer, Durward, 27–28, 37, 38, 40, 58, 64, 113, 217, 220, 222, 234
Sandifer, Irene, 28, 58, 222, 227
San Francisco Conference, 9, 14, 33
Saudi Arabia, 114
n
Scarlett, Leah, 166, 333–34
Scarlett, William Bishop, 166, 333
Schaeffer-Bernstein, Carola von, 106
Schiff, Dorothy, 271, 331
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 187, 242, 258–59, 276, 294, 295
Schneiderman, Rose, 156
Schuller, Mrs. Craig McGeachy, 166
Schwartz, Abba, 261, 288, 324
Scripps-Howard, 270, 271
Seagrave, Sisty, 233
Seagrave, Van, 233
Searching Wind, The
, 104
SHAPE, 213
Sheean, Vincent, 186
Sheil, Bernard Bishop, 155
Shertok, Moshe, 116
Sherwood, Robert E., 184
Shumatov, Elizabeth, 6
Sinatra, Frank, 311
Smith, Alfred E., 253, 285, 287
Smith, C. R., 319
Smith, Margaret Chase, 344
n
Smith, Walter Bedell, 202
Snyder, John W., 138, 147
South Africa, 30
Soviet Union, 14–16, 22, 30, 32, 35–36, 51, 53, 54–55, 221, 231–32, 263
atomic test (1949), 97
Eleanor on at war’s end, 11–12
Eleanor’s trip to, meeting with Khrushchev, 271–76
Partition of Palestine and, 116, 117, 119–20, 124–25, 126–27
and U.S. 1948 elections, 139, 140
see also
Cold War; United Nations
Spaak, Paul Henri, 29
Spain, 38, 150, 151, 152, 158, 162–63
n
Spellman, Francis Joseph Cardinal, 151, 175, 241, 287
aid to parochial schools controversy, 151–63
Spivak, Lawrence, 183
Stalin, Joseph, 12, 16, 73, 78, 93, 213, 272, 274
Steinberg, Milton, 102
Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., 14, 23, 24, 27, 28
Stevenson, Adlai, 26, 38, 67, 91, 123, 146, 149, 279, 282, 315, 319, 337, 340, 341, 342
accompanies Eleanor to Los Angeles press conference, 299
affectionate letter to Eleanor reports meeting with Kennedy, 303
asks Eleanor’s advice on running again, 243
the convention, 301
Eleanor plans strategy for, 297–98
Eleanor suggests Stevenson-Kennedy ticket, 294–98
movement to draft, 291–92
not a “draft evader,” 291
personality attractive to women, 246
presidential campaign (1952), 204, 205, 209–14
presidential campaign (1956), 241–69
presidential campaign (1960), 283, 288, 305, 307
response to draft-movement upsetting to friends, 302–3
speech before Advisory Committee dinner, 289
speeches too academic, 242
writes Eleanor in hospital, 337
see also
Democrats/Democratic party
Stevenson, Adlai, Jr., 282
Stevenson Club, 246
Stevenson for President Committee, 243
Stimson, Henry L., 3
Stix, Thomas L., 183, 311, 312, 331, 333, 334
Stokes, Thomas L., 20
Straight, Michael, 32, 32
n
Strayer, Martha, 185
Streit, Clarence, 18
“Struggle for the Rights of Man, The,” 63
Suckley, Margaret (Daisy), 4, 5, 6
Suez, 263
Sukarno, Achmed, 201
Sullivan, Lucille, 165
Supreme Court, 1954 desegregation decision, 248–51, 254–56, 262
Svenska, Dagbladet
, 189
Sweden, 94
Swing, Mrs. Gram, 33–34
Symington, Stuart, 246, 288, 297
Taft, Robert A., 138
Takagi, Yasaka, 344
n
Tamas, 237
Tammany Hall, 13, 173, 278, 280
Taubman, Howard, 183
Taylor-Rostow Report, 326
Ten Little Indians
, 104
Third World, 191, 274
“This I Believe,” 340
This I Remember,
164, 184–87
This Is My Story
, 184
Thomas, Elbert D., 120
Thomas, Norman, 331
Thompson, Geraldine (Mrs. Lewis), 318–19, 336
Thompson, Malvina, 3–4, 23, 25, 28, 43, 85, 144, 160, 165, 168, 183, 185, 201, 246, 313, 316
exhausted, breaks in Maureen Corr as her successor, 171–72
her death, 238
Thurmond, Strom, 146
Tillich, Paul, 337
Time,
“Madame Roosevelt becoming beautiful” report, 171
Tito, Marshal ( Josip Broz), 76, 229, 231–32, 241
Tito, Mrs., 232
Tobias, Channing, 235, 253
Tommy,
see
Thompson, Malvina
Tomorrow Is Now
, 332
Toombs, Henry, 8n, 169
Townsend, John G., Jr., 23, 31, 34
“Tractors for Freedom,” 324
“Tragedy of Liberalism,” 73
Transjordan, 127
Tree, Mrs. Ronald, 323
Truman, Bess, 3, 182
Truman, Harry S., 3, 5–6, 9, 17, 19–20, 43, 46, 63, 70, 86, 97, 136–37, 157–58, 161, 167, 190, 200, 202, 208, 213, 302, 326
n
, 343, 344
n
appoints Eleanor UN delegate, 19–20
corresponds with Eleanor on possibility of Third World War, 94–95
Eleanor defends Truman Doctrine, 85
Eleanor’s fear of Churchill’s influence on, 71
and Eleanor’s plans to visit Soviet Union, 16
Eleanor’s report to on Third World distrust of U.S., 192–94
“get tough with Russia” policy, break with Wallace, 74–75
and James Roosevelt’s candidacy for California governorship, 174
Jewish refugee question, 103–4, 105, 107, 110, 112
lunches with Eleanor, Democratic politics discussed, 14
and presidential campaign (1956), 245, 257–59
problems with Congress, 133, 135
threat to draft striking railroad workers, 75
see also
Democrats/Democratic party
Truman, Harry S., Correspondence springs up between Eleanor and, 11
her letter to on Churchill and Russia, 11–12
Truman, Harry S., partition of Palestine question, 113, 114, 115, 119, 121, 122, 125–27
Bernadotte Plan and, 129
Truman, Harry S., presidential campaign (1948), 133–49
disagreements with Eleanor over administration policy, 137–38
Eleanor complains to over Clinton Anderson’s appointment, 135–36
Eleanor’s memo to on major foreign-policy concerns, 148–49
middle-American conservatism, 133–34
Truman, Harry S., presidential campaign (1952), 204, 205, 210, 211–12
Eleanor’s message to at end of his presidency, 218
urges Eleanor to attend Democratic convention, 207
Truman, Harry S., and presidential campaign (1960):
attack on liberals, 289
resigns as convention delegate, 298, 300
Truman Doctrine, 82–86, 87, 135