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PROLOGUE: HUMAN RIGHTS
xxi:	“something happened,” Richard Gardner, NYT, “Eleanor Roosevelt’s Legacy,” NYT, December 10, 1988, p. 27.
xxii:	“Mr. President, fellow delegates,” and following excerpts from address, Eleanor Roosevelt, “On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/eleanorrooseveltdeclarationhumanrights.htm.
xxiii:	“The Russians seem to have met,” quoted in “Eleanor Roosevelt’s Legacy,” NYT.
xxiii:	“Determined to press,” ibid., p. 27.
PART ONE
ELLIOTT
3:	“charming, good-looking,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 23.
3:	“Oh! My darling,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 3.
4:	“Dear old Govenor,” quoted in ibid., p. 6.
4:	“little Motherling,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 45.
4:	“his sweet little China Dresden,” quoted in ibid., p. 4.
4:	“Elliott had a special claim,” Lash, Alone, p. 173.
4:	“[s]he had been his anchor,” ibid., p. 45.
4:	“Ellie boy,” quoted in Eleanor Roosevelt, Story, p. 71.
4:	“decidedly pretty,” quoted in ibid., p. 32.
5:	“dashing, outgoing,” “Questions and Answers About Eleanor Roosevelt. Question: Who Were Her Parents?” GWU.
5:	“As a youth,” ibid., p. 4.
5:	“blessedly robust,” Churchill, The Roosevelts, p. 125.
5:	“protective of his elder brother,” Cook, Volume One, p. 4.
6:	“By showing Elliott up,” Dalton, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 55.
6:	“aggressive egotism,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 32.
6:	“Oh, Father,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 7.
7:	“Has not our dear Thee,” quoted in McCullough, Horseback, p. 238.
7:	“build their dream house,” quoted in ibid., p. 241.
7:	“It delights me,” quoted in ibid., p. 241.
7:	“He had always envied the ease,” Collier and Horowitz, The Roosevelts, pp. 68–69.
7:	“to that keenest of sportsmen,” Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, dedication page.
7:	“the long competition still smoldered,” ibid., p. 69.
8:	“was not self-righteous,” Mason White, “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR 5, no. 1 (March 1988), p. 18.
8:	“the Roosevelt he liked best,” McCullough, Horseback, p. 237.
8:	“He was one,” quoted in ibid.
8:	“How different people are,” quoted in ibid., p. 243–44.
9:	“a remarkable combination,” “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 18.
9:	“one of the most popular,” ibid.
9:	“one of society’s great gallants,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 23.
10:	“one signed,” quoted in “Questions and Answers,” GWU.
10:	“took me to help serve,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 12.
10:	“was also a trustee,” ibid.
11:	“innumerable little children in casts,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Story, p. 28.
11:	“a steel brace,” ibid.
12:	“a small and ragged urchin,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 32.
12:	“He was the one,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 3.
13:	“Greatheart,” Cook, Volume One, p. 46.
13:	“He was so mad with pain,” quoted in Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 94.
13:	“Oh my God my Father,” quoted in ibid., p. 94.
13:	“devotion to his father,” McCullough, Horseback, p. 183.
13:	“He was extolled,” McCullough, Horseback, p. 185.
13:	“seemed demolished by the loss,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 19.
14:	“I had never caused,” quoted in Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 94.
14:	“From the beginning,” Cook, Volume One, p. 40.
15:	“might teach our ‘lovers of men,’” quoted in ibid., p. 12.
15:	“Arriving in Bombay,” McCullough, Horseback, p. 239.
15:	“a grand prince,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 12.
15:	“I would not trust myself,” quoted in McCullough, Horseback, p. 239.
15:	“all too Arabian night–like,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 41.
16:	“By George,” quoted in McCullough, Horseback, p. 240.
16:	“all of them,” Cook, Volume One, p. 41.
17:	“In fact, he rather swooned,” ibid.
17:	“through long lines,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 12.
17:	“for if ever there was a man,” quoted in ibid.
18:	“What a fellow that is.” quoted in McCullough, Horseback, p. 242.
18:	“In his travels,” White, Slaying the Dragon, p. 20.
ANNA
22:	“In the economic renaissance,” Bradley, The United States, pp. 23–24.
23:	“the New York of the eighteen eighties,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 17.
24:	“a serious satirical book,” Fred Kaplan, The Singular Mark Twain, p. 299.
24:	“The Gilded Age echoes,” Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, pp. 161–62.
25:	“What is the secret,” Stead, W. T. The Americanization of the World. London: Horace Markley, 1901. For citation, quote Stead, p. 381.
25:	“In that society,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 4.
26:	“that New York Society,” ibid.
26:	“one of the most beautiful,” ibid., p. 3.
26:	“acclaimed as one,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 17.
26:	“stunning, regal,” McCullough, Horseback, p. 248.
26:	“polo and tennis matches,” “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 22.
26:	“set the fashion in dress,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 21.
26:	“The proud set of the head,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 21.
27:	“that she lacked the stamina,” “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 22.
27:	“sit and gaze,” McCullough, Horseback, p. 249.
28:	“Why, with beauty,” www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-pretty-woman.
29:	“slightly but attractively mad,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 14.
29:	“so many friends,” quoted in McCullough, Horseback, p. 248.
29:	“My life has been a gamble,” quoted in ibid.
30:	“same colorless thing,” quoted in “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 26.
30:	“little fat figure,” ibid.
30:	“Poor Sophie,” quoted in McCullough, Horseback, p. 248.
30:	“Hudson River gentry,” ibid.
30:	“in a household that demanded,” quoted in “Questions and Answers,” GWU.
30:	“out of a gothic novel,” Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 131.
30:	“religious fanaticism,” ibid.
30:	“In the country,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, pp. 3–4.
COURTSHIP
34:	“completely helpless when faced,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 4.
34:	“efforts at control,” Cook, Volume One, p. 25.
34:	“tall, slender, fair-haired,” quoted in “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 20.
35:	“the dashing, well-traveled,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 3.
35:	“only comfort,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 42.
35:	and, “our interests, our lives” quoted in ibid., p. 43
35:	“Elliott’s reverence,” quoted in ibid.
35:	“a Sweet Hearted,” quoted in ibid.
36:	“taught that success,” “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 20.
36:	“The two young people,” ibid.
37:	“He sent flowers,” McCullough, Horseback, p. 249.
37:	“There were morning walks,” “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 21.
37:	“were seen at parties,” McCullough, Horseback, p. 249.
37:	“all about one another,” David McCullough, HVRR, p. 20.
37:	“The summer of ’83,” ibid.
38:	“I don’t know whether,” quoted in Daniel E. Spinzia, “Elliott Roosevelt, Sr.—A Spiral into Darkness: the Influences,” TF, Fall 2007, p. 5.
38:	“gloomy,” ibid., p. 20.
38:	“feared his sudden explosions,” Cook, Volume One, p. 43.
39:	“All my love and ambition,” Roosevelt, ed., Hunting Big Game, p. 149.
39:	“Please never keep anything from me,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 44.
39:	“I know I am blue,” quoted in ibid., p. 19.
39:	“Darling Baby,” FDR Library, box 68.
40:	“Womanly, in all purity,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 43.
41:	“My dear Miss Hall,” FDR Library, box 68.
41:	“My dear Anna,” ibid.
41:	“Dearest Anna,” ibid.
MARRIAGE
43:	“one of the most brilliant social events,” quoted in Lash Papers, p. 20.
43:	“One of the most brilliant weddings,” NYT, December 2, 1883, p. 3.
44:	“were in the Catherine de Medici style,” ibid.
44:	“pledged a life together,” “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 21.
44:	“Dear Lady,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 20.
44:	“to enter their union,” “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 21.
45:	“Their income, although comfortable,” ibid., p. 22.
45:	“In the spring of 1887,” ibid.
46:	“My dear Elliott,” FDR Library, box 5.
47:	“Elliott partied frantically,” Cook, Volume 1, p. 47.
47:	“Poor old Nell,” quoted in ibid.
47:	“precious boy,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 24.
48:	“a miracle from heaven,” quoted in ibid.
48:	“a more wrinkled,” quoted in ibid.
48:	“I am told,” quoted in Elliott Roosevelt, Hunting Big Game, pp. 37–38.
48:	“She is such a funny child,” Burns and Dunn, The Three Roosevelts, p. 86.
49:	“wanted to sink through the floor,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 33.
49:	“with a look of kind indifference,” ibid.
49:	“Always correct and generally aloof,” ibid., p. 46.
50:	“for I was a solemn child,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 5.
50:	“I loved candy and sugar,” Roosevelt, My Story, p. 14.
51:	“I was always disgracing my mother,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 42
51:	“Her forty-fifth birthday,” ibid., p. 43.
51:	“The first were my mother,” FDR Library, box 1.
52:	“I doubt that the background,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 23.
53:	“she organized countless charity balls, ibid., p. 47.
53:	“I know now,” quoted in Smith, FDR, p. 43.
54:	“cold virtue, severity,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 28.
54:	“‘More care!’ said the old man,” Dickens, Curiosity Shop, p. 14.
PART TWO
NELL’S HOMELINESS
58:	“The proud set of the head,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 21.
58:	“Her mouth and teeth,” quoted in Pottker, Sara and Eleanor, p. 71.
59:	“the ugly duckling,” quoted in ibid.
59:	“gawky daughter,” Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, p. 95.
59:	“at the time,” Pottker, Sara and Eleanor, p. 71.
59:	“Mother grew up,” Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, p. 95.
59:	“an ugly little thing,” quoted in Collier and Horowitz, The Roosevelts, p. 81.
60:	“I was a poor dancer,” Roosevelt, My Story, p. 51.
61:	“A gentle and overprotected boy,” Collier and Horowitz, The Roosevelts, p. 81.
61:	“I am plain,” quoted in Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, p. 95.
61:	“and from the time,” Birmingham, America’s Secret Aristocracy, p. 126.
61:	“as a child senses those things,” quoted in Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, p. 92.
62:	“those who mock the person,” Cook, Volume One, pp. 2–3.
62:	“I knew I was the first girl,” Roosevelt, My Story, p. 101.
62:	“took everything—most of all herself—,” quoted in Smith, FDR, p. 44.
62:	“most attractive,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 95.
62:	“very much sought after,” ibid.
63:	“usually had a tongue,” Pottker, Sara and Elizabeth, p. 73.
63:	“Alice was strong and supple,” Collier and Horowitz, The Roosevelts, p. 86.
64:	“little golden hair,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 28.
64:	“over her little girl’s,” ibid.
NELL’S SHYNESS
68:	“had her coupe in town,” “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 21.
68:	“a golden secure world,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 25.
69:	“My earliest recollections, Smith, FDR, p. 6.
69:	“was always devoted to me,” Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, pp. 36–37.
70:	“I feel sure,” ibid., p. 9.
70:	“I rather imagine,” ibid.
70:	“Eleanor dreaded her debut,” Pottker, Sara and Elizabeth, p. 95.
70:	“Her memory was colored,” ibid., p. 95.
70:	“I hasten to tell you,” quoted in ibid., p. 95.
71:	“Eleanor Roosevelt never used,” Cook, Volume One, p. 168.
71:	“she never missed an opportunity,” Cook, Volume One, p. 9.
71:	“In 1922, she joined,” www.npr.gov/nr/travel/presidents/eleanor_roosevelt_valkill/html
71:	“She never thought of herself,” Cook, Volume One, p. 1.
72:	“Eleanor’s capacity to lose herself,” Cook, Volume One, p. 99.
72:	“read the Chanson de Roland,” ibid.
73:	“I have to this day,” CMP, no page.
73:	“No one tried to censor,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 16.
74:	“Some people consider ambition,” FDR-L, box 12
74:	“Of course it is easier,” ibid.
74:	“To be the thing we seem,” ibid.
75:	“It is very hard to do,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 98.
75:	“remembered her first days in school,” Lash, p. 42
76:	“I was perfectly happy,” quoted in Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, p. 92.
76:	“He was the one great love,” quoted in Roosevelt, Africa, p. viii.
76:	“Father’s own little Nell,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 82.
76:	“days through the Grand snow,” quoted in ibid.
NELL’S FEARS
78:	“an extended tour,” Cook, Volume One, p. 48.
78:	“helped his wife,” ibid.
79:	“the accident [had] left Eleanor,” ibid.
80:	“would break into tears,” ibid., p. 42.
80:	“In Eleanor’s later portrayals,” ibid., p. 28.
81:	“was not relieved by,” Cook, Volume One, p. 219.
81:	“I don’t think you read my letters,” quoted in ibid.
81:	“I hated to leave you,” quoted in ibid.
82:	“‘I was always afraid,’” quoted in Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, p. 96.
82:	“shockingly mercurial with the daughter,” Pottker, Sara and Elizabeth, p. 71.
82:	“I remember my father,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 6.
83:	“I never knew you were a coward,” quoted in Pottker, Sara and Elizabeth, p. 71.
83:	“the tone of disapproval,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 6.
NELL’S LONELINESS
85:	“Between her parents’ disappointment,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 24.
86:	“Eleanor’s uncles,” Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor, p. 52.
86:	“Strict and adamant,” Cook, Volume One, pp. 93–94.
86:	“short skirts,” ibid., p. 94.
86:	“a new sense of belonging,” quoted in Smith, FDR, p. 44.
87:	“the center of attention,” ibid.
87:	“benefit from a year or two,” Ward, Trumpet, p. 49.
88:	“The three years,” ibid.
88:	“The summer [of my third year],” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 35.
89:	“one stone after another,” FDR-L, box 6.
90:	“A sweet sight,” quoted in Pottker, Sara and Elizabeth, p. 144.
90:	“She had viewed motherhood,” ibid., p. 147.
90:	“I felt . . . in some way,” quoted in ibid.
91:	“Although Eleanor saw no ‘alienist,’” ibid.
91:	“a pregnancy at this time,” ibid., p. 148.
91:	“It did not come naturally to me,” Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor, p. 52.
92:	“ordeal to be borne,” Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor, p. xx.
92:	“worried that her talents,” Cook, Volume Two, p. 9
92:	“Her great friend Lorena Hickok,” ibid.
92:	“My zest in life,” quoted in Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, p. 90.
93:	“Frequently flirtatious,” Cook, Volume Two, pp. 199–200.
NELL’S COLDNESS
96:	“She was not a saint,” Cook, Volume Two, p. 2.
96:	“[T]hough long-suffering,” ibid., pp. 2–3.
96:	“a large, distracting presence,” ibid., pp. 56–57.
97:	“other incidents,” ibid., p. 56.
98:	“One might argue,” ibid., p. 57.
98:	“That was a sad day,” ibid.
98:	“once became very annoyed,” Cook, Volume Two, p. 16.
98:	“the White House became,” Cook, Volume Two, p. 269.
PART THREE
FATHER, 1873–1889
107:	“mysterious problems,” Churchill, The Roosevelts, p. 159.
107:	“Handsome Ellie,” ibid.
108:	“Whatever was wrong,” Cook, Volume One, p. 34.
108:	“experiencing fainting spells,” “A Spiral into Darkness,” TF, p. 2.
108:	“The doctors called it,” Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor, p. 9.
108:	“He . . . began to show symptoms,” Brands, T.R., p. 104.
109:	“I jump involuntarily,” “nearly always low,” quoted in Brands, T.R., p. 105.
109:	“could make more friends,” quoted in Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, p. 42.
110:	“It came from overexcitement,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 34.
110:	“He is nervous,” quoted in ibid.
110:	“I should be afraid,” quoted in ibid.
110:	“haunted by nightmares,” Cook, Volume One, p. 30.
111:	“make your body,” quoted in McCullough, Horseback, p. 112.
111:	“an undiagnosed disorder,” Cook, Volume One, p. 30.
111:	“a tumor developed,” Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, p. 95.
111:	“Out of the family orbit,” Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 63.
112:	“studied hard and worked late,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, pp. 34–35.
112:	“Private. During my Latin lesson,” FDR-L, box unknown.
114:	“Dear Father,” FDR-L, box unknown.
115:	“had a good deal of experience,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 35.
115:	“as if I was ill,” quoted in ibid.
115:	“to rest and restock,” McCullough, Horseback, p. 39.
115:	“We have come back here,” quoted in ibid., p. 40.
116:	“was drinking heavily,” Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 430.
116:	“There had been a complete,” ibid., p. 430.
117:	“Anna wrote that [he],” “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 23.
118:	“The birth of his first son,” Cook, Volume One, pp. 53–54.
119:	“Anna still loved her husband,” Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor, p. 10.
119:	“Anna’s own father,” Pottker, Sara and Elizabeth, p. 69.
120:	“His leg was broken,” Roosevelt, My Story, p. 8.
120:	“completely broke his nerves,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 52.
121:	“Unable to find any real comfort,” ibid., p. 38.
121:	“Sometimes I woke up,” Roosevelt, My Story, pp. 15–16.
121:	“was well acquainted with,” Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor, p. 21.
122:	“‘Finally,’ Eleanor’s eldest grandson,” quoted in Pottker, Sara and Elizabeth, p. 71.
122:	“began to drink,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 6.
122:	“Like most children,” Cook, Volume One, p. 39.
122:	“When he was not drinking,” Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, p. 92.
123:	“It is a perfect nightmare,” quoted in “A Spiral into Darkness,” TF, p. 5.
123:	“It is all horrible,” quoted in Ward, Trumpet, p. 45.
123:	“preferred her warm and affection father,” ibid.
124:	“dominated my life,” Roosevelt, My Story.
DAUGHTER, 1917–28
125:	“The opportunity to move,” Smith, FDR, p. 147.
126:	“Uncle Ted,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Story, p. 123.
126:	“politics still meant little to me,” ibid.
126:	“I have no recollection,” ibid.
126:	“One afternoon at tea,” ibid., p. 137.
126:	“When Eleanor and her children finally moved to Washington,” quoted in Smith, FDR, p. 147.
127:	“I did very little war work,” Roosevelt, My Story, p. 250.
128:	“Everyone in the canteen,” ibid., p. 254.
129:	“I went to the Red Cross,” ibid., p. 258.
129:	“I cannot do this,” quoted in Smith, FDR, p. 173.
129:	“took flowers, cigarettes,” Roosevelt, My Story, p. 256.
129:	“The sun in the window,” ibid., p. 257.
130:	“I want to thank you,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, pp. 218–19.
131:	“Out of these contacts,” Roosevelt, My Story, p. 260.
132:	“If I had to go out,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 85.
132:	“I can’t say I am set up,” ibid.
132:	“In New York,” Roosevelt, My Story, p. 346.
134:	“And so, for months,” Cook, Volume One, p. 311.
135:	“‘Mrs. Roosevelt’s activity,’” NYHT.
136:	“[N]ational health insurance,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 290.
137:	“I believe that the best interests,” quoted in PEN, July 16, 1920.
137:	“well, they are more conservative,” ibid.
138:	“She wrote the editorials,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 309.
138:	“Our Foreign Policy,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 364.
138:	“we do nothing constructive,” quoted in ibid., p. 365.
138:	“we do not wish to be entangled,” quoted in ibid., p. 364.
138:	“The Republican Administration,” WDN, July 1928, p. 2.
140:	“If I wanted to be selfish,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 355.
FATHER, 1890–92
141:	“saw this as banishment,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 36.
142:	“I was not yet six years old,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 6.
142:	“[S]he was the center,” ibid., p. 7.
142:	“She took me away in disgrace,” ibid.
143:	“I am sorry to say,” ibid.
144:	“seriously wrong,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 38.
145:	“ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT DEMENTED,” NYH, August 18, 1891.
146:	“ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT ‘INSANE,’” NYT, August 18, 1891.
146:	“Try to remember,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 47.
147:	“You publish in your edition,” NYH, August 18, 1891.
148:	“abominable,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 38.
148:	“madman,” ibid.
148:	“[s]poiling for a fight,” Cook, Volume One, p. 72.
148:	“after a week,” ibid.
149:	“In certain respects,” Brands, T.R., p. 249.
149:	“Thank Heaven I came over,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 73.
149:	“surrendered completely,” quoted in ibid.
151:	“This morning,” quoted in ibid., p. 38.
151:	“was more famous,” White, Slaying the Dragon, p. 50.
152:	“wicked and foolish,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 39.
152:	“in my family,” quoted in ibid.
152:	“see me as I am,” quoted in ibid.
152:	“As I regain my moral,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 76.
DAUGHTER, 1932–36
153:	“most momentous decision,” Cook, Volume Two, p. 23.
154:	“many shortcomings,” Roosevelt, Africa, p. viii.
154:	“was the one great love,” ibid.
154:	“Although it was not,” Cook, Volume Two, p. 24.
155:	“most extraordinary tribute,” ibid.
155:	“When you come,” quoted in ibid.
155:	“There was no heat,” quoted in ibid.
156:	“After all, this is the richest,” quoted in ibid.
156:	“we will have to pay,” quoted in ibid., p. 11.
156:	“end the worldwide depression,” ibid., p. 11.
157:	“With her activist team,” ibid., p. 12.
158:	“complex,” Cook, Volume One, p. 374.
158:	“ER had hoped,” ibid., p. 347.
158:	“she now believed that,” ibid., p. 374.
159:	“Eleanor, on the other hand,” ibid., p. 346.
160:	“great majority of the working women,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, pp. 309–10.
160:	“The battle for the 48-hour law,” ibid., p. 310.
161:	“Although it did not last,” Beasley, et.al., Encyclopedia, p. 44.
161:	“But Eleanor, darling,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 346.
162:	“Franklin was the politician,” ibid., p. 348.
162:	“She is not doing the President,” quoted in Smith, FDR, pp. 402–03.
162:	“Some of Roosevelt’s closest advisers,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 346.
163:	“Roosevelt receptions and parties,” ibid., p. 376.
163:	“‘a Washington cave dweller,’” ibid., p. 376
163:	“delighted to know,” quoted in ibid., p. 357.
163:	“the most influential woman,” Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor, p. 219.
163:	“became the most outspoken first lady,” ibid., p. xiv.
164:	“the wisdom of the serpent,” quoted in ibid., p. 219.
164:	“as much as her husband,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, pp. 377–78.
165:	“He was a showman,” ibid., p. 344.
166:	“she could entertain,” www.nps.gov/nr/travel/presidents/eleanor_Roosevelt_valkill.html.
166:	“where I used to find myself,” quoted in ibid.
166:	“They hoped to train,” ibid.
FATHER, 1891
169:	“a maniac morally,” “a flagrant man-swine,” quoted in Ward, Trumpet. p. 275.
170:	“not large-souled enough,” quoted in “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 24.
171:	“no longer denied sleeping,” Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 439.
171:	“realized that if [Katy Mann’s] claim was true,” Brands, T.R., p. 247.
171:	“hideous revelation hangs over me,” quoted in ibid.
172:	“to help raise her child,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 60.
172:	“if she can make out at all,” quoted in ibid.
173:	“If you and I were alone,” quoted in Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 439.
174:	“expert in likenesses,” quoted in Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, p; 217.
174:	“Rooseveltian features,” quoted in Collier and Horowitz, The Roosevelts, p. 282.
174:	“he believed [alcoholism],” Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 430.
174:	“little short of criminal,” quoted in ibid., p. 275.
175:	“[w]hatever settlement was reached,” Cook, Volume One, p. 65n.
176:	“He drank like a fish,” McCullough, Horseback, p. 247.
176:	“rhapsodies of an idyllic time,” Cook, Volume Two, p. 64.
177:	“He and Anna walked,” ibid.
179:	“‘Oh, my dear father,” Dickens, Hard Times, p. 37.
DAUGHTER, 1920s–1950s
181:	“was forever attracted to people,” Cook, Volume One, p. 4.
181:	“felt understood and loved,” ibid., p. 39.
182:	“I became a much more ardent citizen,” Roosevelt, My Story, p. 297.
182:	“What housewife can detect,” quoted in Cook, Volume Two, p. 64.
182:	“became the most influential,” ibid.
183:	“Luckily, I went,” Roosevelt, My Story, p. 109.
183:	“It had never occurred,” ibid.
184:	“I explained that I had had,” ibid., p. 324.
185:	“Throughout the 1930s,” ibid., p. 69.
185:	“Long before her husband,” Cook, Volume One, p. 17.
185:	“When, as wife of the assistant secretary,” Cook, Volume Two, p. 317.
185:	“[t]he Jew party appalling,” ibid.
186:	“tinged with a vague sense,” ibid.
186:	“He thought her gracious,” ibid., p. 318.
187:	“ER was disturbed,” ibid., p. 285.
187:	“old lady Roosevelt,” Lee, Watchman, p. 110.
187:	“[h]er views changed slowly,” Cook, Volume One, p. 6.
188:	“was among the first to see,” ibid., pp. 16–17.
188:	“I was told this morning,” quoted in Cook, Volume Two, p. 349.
188:	“Alas as I was reading,” quoted in ibid.
189:	“offensive to many of your readers,” quoted in ibid.
189:	“I am terribly sorry,” quoted in ibid.
189:	“The colored race has the gift,” Roosevelt, Story, pp. 295–96.
189:	“about as aggressive,” quoted in Lash, Alone, p. 258.
190:	“that President Eisenhower,” ibid., p. 259.
FATHER, 1892–93
191:	“the most sympathetic,” Brands, T.R., p. 258.
191:	“went voluntarily into exile,” Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 218.
192:	“One evening, drunk and naked,” “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 25.
192:	“Dear little Nell,” FDR-L, box 68.
192:	“Dear little Nel,” FDR-L, box 5.
193:	“a sprawling old Virginia village,” RT-D, Wilson, Goodridge.
194:	“My little Darling Daughter,” FDR-L, box 8.
194:	“My darling little Nell,” ibid.
194:	“Please write to me soon,” ibid.
196:	“lived for Elliott’s letters,” Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 219.
196:	“A child stood at a window,” quoted by Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, p. 93.
197:	“The Robinson properties,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 39.
198:	“a very stiff and formal,” RT-D, p. 2.
199:	“He dropped into homes,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, pp. 39–40.
200:	“This letter from Elliott,” quoted in ibid., p. 40.
200:	“a lovely old lady,” “A Spiral into Darkness,” TF, p. 7.
200:	“to drive with him,” ibid., p. 8.
201:	“an independent and willful child,” Cook, Volume One, p. 71.
202:	“had no intention of turning,” ibid., pp. 71–2.
202:	“I have not found one,” quoted in ibid., p. 83.
203:	“more time on her tree limb,” ibid., p. 85.
205:	“Though he was so little with us,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Story, pp. 29–30.
205:	“They would spend the day,” Collier and Horowitz, The Roosevelts, p. 87.
205:	“On the way to Central Park,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 51.
DAUGHTER, 1936–62
208:	“He said he felt sure,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Story, p. 177.
208:	“I dictate it directly,” ibid., p. 178.
209:	“I wonder if anyone,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Volume I, p. 3.
209:	“I often wonder,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Volume III, p. 318.
209:	“Never before has a sudden change,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Volume I, p. 396.
210:	“I can quite understand,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Volume II. pp. 129–30.
210:	“It is certainly almost breathtaking,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Volume III, p. 275.
211:	“I was usually shy,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Volume II, p. 170.
212:	“as one woman to another,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 373.
212:	“In 1933 I Think We Were a People,” Look, May 23, 1939, p. 6.
213:	“the strongest argument,” quoted in New York Times Magazine, p. 312.
214:	“tea with Mrs. Roosevelt,” Lash, Alone, p. 184.
214:	“It was a chore for which,” ibid., p. 304.
215:	“Selby shoes, a mattress company,” Cook, Volume Two, p. 202.
215:	“The money I earned,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Remember, p. 14.
216:	“On 8 November in Philadelphia,” Cook, Volume Two, p. 388.
216:	“It would be easy,” quoted in ibid., p. 389.
217:	“Isn’t it ironical,” quoted in Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, p. 250.
FATHER, 1892–94
219:	“My darling little Daughter,” FDR-L, box 8.
220:	“her frail health [had been] broken,” Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 456.
220:	“DO NOT COME,” quoted in ibid.
221:	“It is too awful,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 77.
221:	“consuming up to six bottles,” “A Spiral into Darkness,” TF, p. 6.
222:	“She was one of the most beautiful,” NYT, December 9, 1892, p. 5.
223:	“Elliott wept at the sight,” Loving Memory, p. 25.
223:	“drank immoderately, sang bawdy songs,” Smith, FDR, p. 43.
223:	“Eleanor’s account of her mother’s death,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 44.
225:	“He sat in a big chair,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Story, p. 20.
227:	“They are both in the armchair,” quoted in ibid., pp. 25–26.
227:	“Darling little Daughter,” FDR-L, box 1.
228:	“was simply too good,” Eleanor Roosevelt, My Story, p. 32.
228:	“My own little Nell,” FDR-L, box 1.
229:	“My thoughts and sympathy,” FDR-L, box 6.
229:	“My darling little Nell,” FDR-L, box 1.
230:	“safe in heaven,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 84.
230:	“Our Lord wants Ellie boy,” ibid.
230:	“of joy and sorrow,” FDR-L, box 6.
231:	“like some stricken, hunted creature,” quoted in McCullough, Horseback, p. 369.
231:	“he spent the night,” Smith, FDR, p. 43.
231:	“He can’t be helped,” quoted in ibid.
232:	“Dear Father,” FDR-L, box 6
DAUGHTER, 1948–59
234:	“not in the tradition,” NYT, October 13, 1948.
234:	“She kept the job,” Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, pp. 90–91.
234:	“erupted in a case,” ibid., p. 91.
235:	“The unchangeable subject there,” ibid., p. 91–92.
236:	“by the victims beyond tally,” Cook, Volume One, p. 17.
236:	“Some meetings left her dazed,” Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, p. 142.
237:	“Where, after all,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 18.
238:	“She was received,” Lash, Alone, p. 192.
238:	“Just as she was a reassuring symbol,” ibid., p. 194.
238:	“She visited industrial and agricultural cooperatives,” ibid., p. 205.
238:	“a moving experience,” quoted in ibid., p. 225.
239:	“she was feted,” ibid., pp. 229–30.
239:	“toured archeological diggings,” ibid., p. 231.
239:	“You cannot meet this man,” quoted in ibid., p. 232.
240:	“‘Little Nell,’” Elliott [the father] had told her,” Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, p. 192.
240:	“to see this vast,” Lash, Alone, p. 32.
240:	“everything you wanted to see,” quoted in ibid., p. 33.
241:	“The most important thing she learned,” ibid., pp. 269–70.
241:	“In a loose-fitting suit,” Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, p. 246.
242:	“. . . I want to speak of President Franklin Roosevelt,” quoted in ibid., p. 246.
242:	“Mother proceeded to business,” ibid.
242:	“Sometimes, the discussion grew sharp,” ibid., p. 246.
243:	“a moment of the deepest solemnity,” Lash, Alone, p. 272.
243:	“They call me a dictator,” quoted in Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, p. 249.
244:	“One for the road!” quoted in ibid., p. 249.
244:	“Tell your wife and daughter,” FDR-L, box 48.
244:	“the young, hawk-eyed shah,” Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Mother R, p. 173.
244:	“a country of sand,” ibid.
245:	“What do you contemplate?” quoted in ibid., p. 174.
245:	“Mother was of an age,” ibid., p. 176.
FATHER, 1894
248:	“Goodby dear dear Father,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 55.
248:	“all the dear home people,” quoted in “Elliott, the Tragic Roosevelt,” HVRR, p. 27.
248:	“he drove his carriage,” Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor, p. 11.
248:	“I hope my little girl,” quoted in ibid., p. 14.
248:	“quite ill,” quoted in ibid.
248:	“never forget I love you,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 88.
249:	“The exact circumstances,” “A Spiral into Darkness,” TF, p. 6.
249:	“heart disease,” NYT, August 16, 1894, p. 4.
249:	“was unexpected, although he had been somewhat ailing,” ibid.
250:	“The curtains of No. 313 West 102nd Street,” NYW, August 16, 1894.
251:	“I only need to have,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 56.
251:	“more overcome than I have ever seen him,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, pp. 88–89.
252:	“I’ve been sadly wondering,” quoted in ibid., p. 90.
252:	“[a] tender exchange,” ibid.
252:	“What! You would kiss me?” quoted in ibid.
252:	“hideous plan,” quoted in Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 474.
252:	“beside those who are associated,” quoted in ibid.
252:	“the woman,” quoted in ibid.
253:	“behaved perfectly well,” quoted in ibid.
253:	“but I simply refused,” Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 13.
253:	“began the next day,” ibid.
253:	“My grandmother decided,” quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 57.
253:	“By his death,” ibid.
254:	“her own sense of reality,” ibid.
254:	“become closed, withdrawn,” ibid, p. 58.
254:	“Although idolization of her father,” ibid.
DAUGHTER, 1952–62
256:	“She urged Stevenson,” Lash, Alone, p. 242.
257:	“the subject of the president,” ibid., p. 318.
258:	“You have to realize,” quoted in ibid., p. 322.
258:	“The illness would flicker,” ibid.
258:	“in some sense,” Collier and Horowitz, The Roosevelts, p. 469.
258:	“a disease, ironically,” ibid.
259:	“extreme remedies,” ibid.
259:	“No, David, I want to die,” quoted in ibid.
259:	“Utter nonsense,” quoted in Lash, Alone, p. 331.
259:	“looking at the intravenous tube,” ibid.
259:	“her strong heart,” ibid., p. 332.
260:	“What other single human being,” NYT, November 7, 2012, “50 Years After Her Life, Eleanor Roosevelt’s Admirers Will Celebrate Her Life,” by David W. Dunlap.
TWO LEGACIES
263:	“outstanding woman of 1937,” quoted in Cook, Volume Two, p. 484.
263:	“provide a practicable means,” quoted in Cook, Volume One, p. 342.
263:	“more than 300 scholars,” quoted in search.proquest.com/ christiansciencemonitor.pintviewfile?acc.
264:	“People who lived on,” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 46.
265:	“I knew a child once,” quoted in ibid., p. 46.
266:	“Attention, attention,” Arthur Miller, Death of A Salesman, p. 112.
EPILOGUE: THE GOODNIGHT KISS
267:	“We stand today,” Roosevelt, Eleanor, “On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/eleanorrooseveltdeclarationhumanrights.htm.
268:	“stands to this day,” “Eleanor Roosevelt’s Legacy,” NYT, p. 27.
268:	“She knew its words,” ibid.