Eleanor

by Joseph P. Lash

  16. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jefferson Caffery, Jan. 30, 1952; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Trude W. Lash, Jan. 23, 1952; letter from Harold B. Minor to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan., 1952; letters from Avra M. Warren to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 3, 1952, and Feb. 4, 1952, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s replies, Feb. 1 and 5, 1952.

  17. Eleanor Roosevelt, India and the Awakening East (New York, 1953), p. 34.

  18. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Chester Bowles, Feb. 21, 1952.

  19. Interviews with A. David Gurewitsch and Esther Lape.

  20. Press clippings; India Today (publication of the India League of America) April, 1952; interviews with A. David Gurewitsch and Maureen Corr.

  21. E. Roosevelt, India and the Awakening East, op. cit., pp. 182–91; David E. Lilienthal, Venturesome Years, 1950–55, vol. III of The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, 5 vols. (New York, 1966, pp. 364–65; interview with A. David Gurewitsch.

  22. E. Roosevelt, India and the Awakening East, p. 171.

  23. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Dorothy Bourne, March 16, 1952; interview with Maureen Corr.

  24. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, March 7, 1952.

  25. Interview with A. David Gurewitsch; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Dean Acheson, March 7, 1952.

  26. Letter from Malvina Thompson to Maude Gray, March 10, 1952; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Dorothy Bourne, March 16, 1952.

  27. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to the U.S. embassy at Taipei, Feb. 2, 1952; telegram from Dean Acheson to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 5, 1952.

  28. Memorandum from Dean Acheson to Harry S. Truman, April 10, 1952.

  29. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Chester Bowles, April 21, 1952, and May 12, 1952; letter from Walter Bedell Smith to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 9, 1952.

  30. Letter from Claude G. Bowers to Joseph Guffey, Jan. 17, 1953; letter from Claude G. Bowers to the State Department, Dec. 5, 1952; Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 16, 1952.

  10. RESIGNATION ACCEPTED

  1. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 21, 1952.

  2. Ibid., Feb. 7, 1952; Truman, Years of Trial and Hope, cited (Ch. 5), p. 492; Lash Diaries, April 5, 1952; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Chester Bowles, April 21, 1952.

  3. Letter from India Edwards to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 1, 1952.

  4. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to India Edwards, undated.

  5. Letter from Cyril Clemens to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 31, 1952, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, undated.

  6. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to India Edwards, June 18, 1952; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, June 30, 1952, and Truman’s reply, July 3, 1952; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, July 13, 1952; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Frank E. McKinney, July 13, 1952.

  7. New York Herald Tribune, July 22, 1952.

  8. New York Post, July 23, 1952.

  9. Letter from Lily Polk to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 11, 1952; letter from Myron W. Cowen (Brussels embassy) to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 15, 1952; letter from Herbert Beaser to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 29, 1952; letter from Agnes E. Meyer to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 25, 1952.

  10. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Aug. 6, 1952; letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, undated.

  11. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Aug. 21, 1952.

  12. Margaret L. Coit, Mr. Baruch (Boston, 1957), pp. 677, 678; letter from Bernard Baruch to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 3, 1952.

  13. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 1), Sept. 13, 1952.

  14. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to India Edwards, Sept. 28, 1952.

  15. Truman, p. 499; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to India Edwards, Sept. 28, 1952.

  16. New York Times, Oct. 6, 1952.

  17. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Oct. 29, 1952.

  18. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. McLean, Oct. 9, 1952.

  19. Letter from Mrs. Roosevelt to Mrs. Ives, undated; letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 11, 1952.

  20. New York Times, Dec. 12, 1948.

  21. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John D. Hickerson, Nov. 6, 1952.

  22. New York Post, Nov. 19, 1952; letter from Bernard Baruch to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 16, 1952, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Nov. 18, 1952.

  23. Lash Diaries, Nov. 19, 1952.

  24. New York Post, Dec. 14, 1952; A. M. Rosenthal, in the New York Times, Dec. 21, 1952.

  25. Letter from Durward Sandifer to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 22, 1952; letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 30, 1952, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Dec. 31, 1952.

  26. Letter from Richard S. Winslow to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 20, 1953.

  27. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, Jan. 8, 1953.

  28. Interview with A. David Gurewitsch.

  11. PRIVATE CITIZEN AGAIN

  1. New York Post, Oct. 9, 1967; A. M. Rosenthal, in the New York Times, Jan. 18, 1953.

  2. Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 7, 1953; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lord Elibank, Feb. 20, 1953.

  3. Letter from Durward Sandifer to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 16, 1953, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, March 18, 1953.

  4. Doris Fleeson, in the Washington Star, April 8, 1953; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Oswald Lord, April 4, 1953.

  5. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Durward Sandifer, May 16, 1953; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Irene Sandifer, May 16, 1953.

  6. Letter from Harry J. Carman to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 13, 1952; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry J. Carman, Nov. 6, 1952; letter from John Foster Dulles to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 28, 1952; letter from Harry J. Carman to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 4, 1952.

  7. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Trude W. and Joseph P. Lash, May 26, 1953; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gray, June 12, 1953; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Golden, June 12, 1953.

  8. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Golden, June 12, 1953.

  9. Tatsuo Morito, in Fujin Asahi, Aug., 1953; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry J. Carman, June 23, 1953; letter from Kichisaburo Nomura to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 29, 1953, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, May 30, 1953.

  10. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry J. Carman, June 21, 1953.

  11. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry J. Carman, June 4 and 21, 1953.

  12. E. Roosevelt, On My Own, cited (Ch. 1), pp. 113–14.

  13. Interview with Irene Sandifer.

  14. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry J. Carman, June 24, 1953.

  15. E. Roosevelt, On My Own, p. 124.

  16. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Roosevelt, June 30, 1953; E. Roosevelt, On My Own, p. 131.

  17. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Roosevelt, June 30, 1953.

  18. Ibid., July 9, 1953.

  19. Interview with A. David Gurewitsch; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Roosevelt, July 9 and 20, 1953.

  20. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Roosevelt, July 9 and 20, 1953; E. Roosevelt, On My Own, pp. 152–53.

  21. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Roosevelt, July 23, 1953.

  22. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Durward Sandifer, June 25, 1953; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Roosevelt, July 9, 1953; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gray, June 12, 1953; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 1), Nov. 28, 1952.

  23. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech to the Americans for Democratic Action, April 2, 1950.

  24. Westbrook Pegler, in the New York Journal-American, November, 1953; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mr. Stojilkovic, July 8, 1953.

  25. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 18, 1951; letter from Freda Kirchwey to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 26, 1952; Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarks in the Nation, June 7, 1952.

  26. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Trude W. and Joseph P. Lash, Aug. 19, 1952; letter from Eugene Lyons to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 6, 1952.

  27. Las
h Diaries, May 22, 1953; New York Post, May 13, 1953.

  28. New York Post, May 13, 1953; United Press from Hong Kong, June 25, 1953.

  29. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Clark Eichelberger, June 12, 1953; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Alice Pollitzer, April 29, 1954.

  30. Emma Bugbee, in the New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 8, 1954; E. Roosevelt, On My Own, p. 107; letter from Lorena Hickok to Nannine Joseph, Feb. 5, 1954; Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living (New York, 1960), p. 85; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” April 13, 1953.

  31. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gray, Dec. 2, 1952.

  32. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to her children, June 19, 1954.

  33. New York Times and New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 8, 1954.

  34. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Edith Helm, Sept. 22, 1954.

  35. Doris Fleeson, in the New York Times, Oct. 16, 1954.

  36. New York Times, Oct. 12, 1954.

  12. “MADLY FOR ADLAI”

  1. Lash Diaries, Oct. 28, 1953.

  2. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Louise Morley Cochrane, Nov. 24, 1952.

  3. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Martha Gellhorn, Nov. 2, 1953.

  4. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 1), Sept. 13, 1952; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Marie Schwartz, Sept. 16, 1952; letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 20, 1953.

  5. E. Roosevelt, On My Own, cited (Ch. 1), pp. 160–61; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gray, Oct. 27, 1955; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Allard Lowenstein, Oct. 25, 1955.

  6. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Thomas K. Finletter, Feb. 11, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barry Bingham, Jan. 19, 1956.

  7. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lord Elibank, Jan. 20, 1956.

  8. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Gus Ranis, Jan. 23, 1956.

  9. Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 7, 1956; letter from Eugenie Anderson to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 11, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Gus Ranis, April 7, 1956.

  10. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, April 2, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Gus Ranis, April 7, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, April 11, 1956.

  11. David E. Lilienthal, The TVA Years, 1939–45, vol. I of The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, 5 vols. (New York, 1964), p. 310, May 15, 1941.

  12. Lash Diaries, April 20, 1956.

  13. Letter from William Benton to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 11, 1956.

  14. Letter from Nancy W. Davis to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 3, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, undated.

  15. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Allard Lowenstein, June 8, 1956; letter from Thomas K. Finletter to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 13, 1956.

  16. Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 8, 1956, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, June 13, 1956.

  17. Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena A. Hickok, Ladies of Courage (New York, 1954), p. 277.

  18. James M. Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (New York, 1956), p. 21.

  19. Letter from Richard Bolling to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 10, 1956, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Jan. 20, 1956.

  20. Newspaper clippings, datelined Portland, Ore., Feb. 11 and 12, 1956.

  21. Letter from Roy Wilkins to Adlai Stevenson, Feb. 9, 1956.

  22. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Roy Wilkins, Feb. 15, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Walter White, Feb. 24, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Pauli Murray, Feb. 22, 1956.

  23. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Roy Wilkins, undated, and Wilkins’s reply, April 2, 1956.

  24. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Channing Tobias, April 26, 1956.

  25. Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 15, 1956, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, June 20, 1956.

  26. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Trude W. and Joseph P. Lash, July 22, 1956.

  27. Letter from Joseph Rauh, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 24, 1956, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, July 30, 1956.

  28. Letter from Joseph Rauh, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 2, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Aug. 4, 1956.

  29. Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Paul Butler, Aug. 4, 1956; letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 9, 1956.

  30. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Aug. 4, 1956; letter from James Finnegan to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 3, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Estes Kefauver, Aug. 4, 1956.

  31. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Paul Butler, July 2, 1956.

  32. Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 16, 1956.

  33. E. Roosevelt, On My Own, pp. 162, 163; newspaper clippings.

  34. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in the National Roosevelt Day Journal of the Americans for Democratic Action, 1963; E. Roosevelt, On My Own, pp. 162, 163; see also footnote 36, below.

  35. Interviews with Mary Lasker and Lorena Hickok; Eleanor Roosevelt, speech to the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 13, 1956, in Eleanor Roosevelt speech file, in Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

  36. Thomas Stokes, “Mrs. R’s Fight,” New York Post, Aug. 15, 1956; Andrew Tully, in the New York World-Telegram, Aug. 16, 1956; New York Times, Aug. 14, 1956; New York Herald Tribune, Aug. 13, 1956; letter from Eugenie Anderson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 6, 1956; letter from Abba Schwartz to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 31, 1956; letter from James Landis to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 3, 1956.

  37. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to A. David Gurewitsch, Aug. 17, 1956; letter from Helen Hill Miller to Eleanor Roosevelt, undated; David E. Lilienthal, The Road to Change, 1955–59, vol. IV of The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, 5 vols. (New York, 1969), p. 108, Aug. 17, 1956; letter from William Benton to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 27, 1956.

  38. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Aug. 28, 1956.

  39. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gray, Sept. 14, 1956; Lash Diaries, Sept. 19, 1956; letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 16, 1956; letter from Paul Butler to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 19, 1956; letter from Katie S. Louchheim to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 19, 1956; letter from Agnes Meyer to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 22, 1956.

  40. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Sept. 20, 1956.

  41. Memorandum from Bernard Baruch to Adlai Stevenson, Sept. 20, 1956; Lash Diaries, Sept. 19, 1956; letter from Bernard Baruch to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 23, 1956, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Oct. 26, 1956.

  42. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Finnegan, Oct. 12, 1956.

  43. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Oct. 10, 1956.

  44. Interviews with Anna Rosenberg and A. David Gurewitsch.

  45. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Philip Vaughn (“Bennett”), Oct. 24, 1956.

  46. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gray, Nov. 24, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Nov. 7, 1956.

  47. Carl T. Rowan, “The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt,” New York Post, March, 1958; interview with Samuel I. Rosenman.

  13. TWO BOSSES—KHRUSHCHEV AND DE SAPIO

  1. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Charl Williams, Dec. 8, 1956.

  2. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Paul Butler, Dec. 6, 1956.

  3. E. Roosevelt, On My Own, cited (Ch. 1), pp. 194–95; letter from Dorothy Schiff to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 11, 1957.

  4. Press conference release, July 1, 1954; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to A. David Gurewitsch, July 1, 1954.

  5. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Trude W. and Joseph P. Lash, Sept. 6, 17, and 20, 1957.

  6. E. Roosevelt, On My Own, p. 200.

  7. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Trude W. and Joseph P. Lash, op. cit.

  8. E. Roosevelt, On My Own, pp. 206, 207.

  9. Ibid., p. 232.

  10. Ibid., p. 217.

  11. Transcript of Eleanor Roosevelt’s interview with Nikita S. Khrushchev; E. Roosevelt, On My Own, pp. 228–29.

  12. E. Roosevelt, On My Own, pp
. 230–31; interview with A. David Gurewitsch.

  13. New York Post, Oct. 21, 1957; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Queen Juliana, Feb. 14, 1958.

  14. Letter from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 1, 1958; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Nikita S. Khrushchev, Nov. 5, 1958.

  15. New York Post, Sept. 18, 1959; New York Times, Sept. 19, 1959; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Nikita S. Khrushchev, Sept. 21, 1959.

  16. New York Times, Oct. 15, 1960; interview with A. David Gurewitsch; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Broome, Nov. 5, 1960.

  17. Interview with Elizabeth Drewry.

  18. Interview with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gray, Nov. 18, 1954.

  19. Eleanor Roosevelt, on “Meet the Press,” Oct. 26, 1958; Lash Diaries, Nov. 8, 1958.

  20. New York Post, Nov. 5, 1958.

  21. Eleanor Roosevelt, “If You Ask Me,” column in McCall’s, March, 1961; James M. Burns and Janet Thompson Burns, “Mrs. Roosevelt a Remarkable 75,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 4, 1959.

  22. New York Post, July 16, 1959; Lash Diaries, Dec. 31, 1961.

  14. A NEW GENERATION TAKES OVER

  1. Postcard from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 25, 1959, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, July 28, 1959.

  2. E. Roosevelt, “If You Ask Me,” cited (Ch. 13), March, 1957.

  3. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Chester Bowles, Feb. 14, 1958.

  4. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Paul Butler, Jan. 24, 1958.

  5. New York Times, Dec. 8, 1958; Lash Diaries, Oct. 25, 1958.

  6. Eleanor Roosevelt, interview, “College News Conference,” ABC-TV, Dec. 7, 1958.

  7. Lash Diaries, Nov. 11, 1958.

  8. Ibid., Feb. 21, 1960.

  9. The author was one of those whom Mr. Johnson regaled with these stories.

  10. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 1), Sept. 27, 1952.

  11. Eleanor Roosevelt, “Of Stevenson, Truman and Kennedy,” Saturday Evening Post, March 18, 1958; interview with Justin Feldman, law partner of James Landis; E. Roosevelt, interview, “College News Conference,” op. cit.

  12. Letter from John F. Kennedy to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 11, 1958, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Dec. 18, 1958.

  13. Letter from John F. Kennedy to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 29, 1958, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Jan. 6, 1959.