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Lowdermilk, Walter C., 101–2
Lowenstein, Allard, 166, 243, 247, 318
Luce, Clare Boothe, 143, 309
Lucy Stone League, 324
Ludlow, Elizabeth Livingston, 287
Lynch, Walter A., 174
Lyons, Eugene, 236
MacArthur, Douglas, 136, 192, 207
Macatee, Robert, 230
McCall’s, 164, 185–86, 311
McCarranism, 51
McCarthy, Eugene, 297, 301, 344n
McCarthy, Joseph, 51, 211, 212, 216, 223, 233–37, 242, 261, 285, 293
McCarthyism, see McCarthy, Joseph
McGrath, J. Howard, 136
McInerny, Gen. T., 162n
McKinney, Frank E., 207, 211
MacLeish, Archibald, 156, 184
McNeill, Hector, 128–29
Magidoff, Nila, 319
Mailer, Norman, 301
Malik, Charles H., 46–47, 48–49, 64, 65, 195, 344
Mansfield, Mike, 344n
Margaret, Princess, 31
Marshall, George C., 59, 61, 63, 105, 136, 167, 188, 212, 216
attitude toward Eleanor, 90–92
Bernadotte Plan and, 128
corresponds with her on Third World War possibilities, 94–95
“draft Eisenhower” movement and (1948), 140, 141
European reconstruction question, Marshall Plan, 86–96 passim, 118–19
Jewish refugee question and, 111
partition of Palestine question and, 113–14, 118–19, 122
recognition of Palestine state and, 124–25, 127
Marshall, Mrs. George C., 63, 96
Marshall Plan, 86–96 passim, 119
Martin, Mrs. Hershey (Tiny), 302, 316
Marvin, George, 238
Masaryk, Jan, 93
Matsumoto, Shigehabu, 344n
Mature Mind, The, 227
Maxwell, Elsa, 182
Mead, James M., 10, 131–32
“Meet the Press,” 183, 264–65, 280
Mehta, Mrs. Hansa, 55
Meir, Golda, 127
Meitner, Lise, 19
Memoirs (Truman), 124
Mercer, Lucy, see Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer
Meyer, Agnes E., 158–60, 209, 265, 298, 305
Miller, Earl, 165, 170–71, 316–17
Miller, Helen Hill, 262
Mindszenty, Joseph Cardinal, 150, 153
Minor, Harold B., 195
“Missouri Gang,” 134
Mohammed V, Sultan, 345–47
Molotov, V. M., 77, 88
Monnet, Jean, 343
Monroney, A. S. Mike, 297, 298
Mora, José A., 48
Morgan, Gerald, 29
Morgan, Mrs. Gerald, 317
Morgenthau, Elinor, 238, 311, 319
Morgenthau, Henry, III, 183, 311, 319, 330, 334
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 9, 44, 105, 127, 173, 309, 319
Morgenthau, Robert, 305, 319, 334
Morito, Tatsuo, 225
Morley, Louise, 31
Morocco, 345–47
Morse, Wayne, 282
Moscow, Warren, 158n
Moscow Communiqué of the Foreign Ministers, 27
Murphy, Robert, 73, 190–91, 213
Murray, Pauli, 251
Murray, Sir Arthur, 26
Murray, Thomas E., 279
Murrow, Edward R., 31, 259, 340
Murrow, Janet, 31
Muskie, Edmund, 282
“My Day,” 1, 10
Nabokov, Vladimir, 276
Nagako, Empress, 228
Nagasaki, 18, 326n
Nash, Walter, 1
Nation, the, 152, 157
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 17, 164, 247, 248–53
petitions UN for redress of grievances against American society, 52–53, 54
see also Civil rights
National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 181
National Citizens Political Action Committee, 15
Nation Associates, The, 115
Negeb, 127, 128
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 193, 197–200
Newbold, Mary, 317
New Jersey Board of Control of Social Institutions, 318
New York Citizens Committee for Kennedy, 305
New York City Planning Commission, 315
New York Committee for Democratic Voters, 280
New York Herald Tribune, 186
New York Journal-American, 236
New York Post, 271, 289, 297
New York Times, 138, 186, 217
New York World-Telegram, 150, 271
New Zealand, 30
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 79, 344n
Nielsen, Sivert A., 342
Niles, David, 115
Nixon, Richard M., 175, 211, 244, 253, 264–65, 285, 290, 292, 293, 295, 306
Nizam of Hyderabad, 199
Nobel Peace Prize, 67n, 341–44
Noel-Baker, Philip J., 344n
Nomura, Kichisaburo, 225
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 213, 327
Norton, Mary, 9
Norway, 35, 94, 188
Nottingham Roosevelt scholars, 261
O’Dwyer, William, 132, 136, 157
Oil for the Lamps of China, 165
On My Own, 229
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 344n
Osthagen, Henry, 3
Overstreet, H. A., 227
Pacem in Terris, 67
Pakistan, 195, 196–97, 202, 228
Palestine question, Eleanor and:
Committee of Inquiry report, British backtrack, 107
feels U.S. should relax immigration laws, 107
her attitude toward Arabs criticized, 130
Ibn Saud, Franklin and, 103–4
issuance of visas, State Department and, 98–99
Jewish terrorist activities, British retaliate, 108–9
100,000 visas v. Committee of Inquiry, 103–4, 106
opposes partition, 109–10
pros and cons of Palestine as homeland site, 99–102
sympathy for Jewish refugees, 98
visit to Germany, effect on her views, 106–7
Palestine question, United Nations and:
Bernadotte Plan, 128–29
British decision to turn problem over to, 110
British undermine UN authority, she attacks self-righteous governments, 110–11
complains to Marshall over U.S. position, 111
cruelty of British policy, 112–13
General Assembly and, 115
her offer to resign, 121–23
Israel voted member, 129–30
oil question, 111, 112, 114, 117, 118
partition approved, her support, 116
Special Committee set up, her impatience, 111
Truman’s recognition of Israel, her objections to secrecy involved, 125–27
UNSCOP’s majority recommendations, she urges U.S. support, 113–14
U.S. reversal, embargo on arms, opposition to peace-keeping force, 117–20
U.S. trusteeship proposal, 121–25
Palmer, Charles F., 171
Pandit, Mme., 197, 198–99, 230
Paris Economic Conference, 88
Parish, Susan (Cousin Susie), 238, 331
Parsons, Mrs. Barclay, 166
Pasternak, Boris, 276
Pasvolsky, Leo, 24, 28
Pate, Maurice, 315
Pauley, Edwin W., 114, 135, 175
Pauling, Linus, 341
Pavlov, A. P., 60–62, 64
Pavlov, Ivan P., 274
Peabody, Endicott, 323
Peace Corps, Advisory Council of, 324
Pearl Harbor inquiry, 22
Pearson, Drew, 79, 146
Pearson, Lester B., 35, 341
Pegler, Mrs. Westbrook, 150–51
Pegler, Westbrook, 25, 136, 150–51, 168, 186, 230, 235, 236
Pehle, John W., 99
Pendergast, Thomas J., 13
Perki
ns, Frances, 13, 44, 146–47, 309
Perón, Juan, 203
Peter and the Wolf, 183
Peters, Louise, 168
Pethick-Lawrence, Lady, 26, 33–34
Phillips, William, 156
Pilgrim Society, 31
Pius XII, Pope, 158n, 160
Polier, Justine, 100, 319, 345
Polk, Lily, 208
Pollitzer, Alice (Nanny), 237
Poll tax bills, 13
Popular Front, 81
Powell, Adam Clayton, 249, 251, 252
Pratt, Annie, 337
Pratt, Christopher, 337
Preparatory Commission, 33
Profiles in Courage, 285
Progressive Citizens of America, 79, 80, 82
Progressive party, 145
Prokofieff, Serge, 183
Purcell, Charles, 318
Queen Elizabeth, 22, 23
Raleigh News and Observer, 156, 164
Ranis, Gus, 299
Rankins, John E., 104
Rankovic, Aleksandar, 233
Rau, Sir Benegal, 187
Rauh, Joseph L., Jr., 254, 294, 295
Raymond, Jack, 233
Reading, Lady Eva, 26
Reading, Lady Stella, 25, 108–9, 233, 336
Red China, 201, 271, 284
see also Cold War
Red Decade, The, 236
Reddy, John, 175
Reid, Mrs. Ogden, 342
“Report on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews,” 99
Reston, James, 25, 27, 118
Reuther, May, 335
Reuther, Walter, 139, 235, 249, 283, 291, 301, 335–36, 344n
Rhodes, June, 317
Robeson, Paul, 182
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 184
Robinson, Helen (Mrs. Theodore Douglas), 317
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 292, 293, 331, 334, 344n
Roosevelt, Amy, 173
Roosevelt, Anna, see Halsted, Anna
Roosevelt, Anne, 334
Roosevelt, Belle (Mrs. Kermit), 2, 3, 178, 317–18
Roosevelt, Chandler, 188
Roosevelt, Curtis (Buzzy), 321, 336, 338
Roosevelt, Diana, 173
Roosevelt, Dorothy K., 173
Roosevelt, Eleanor:
AAUN’s party for her, 239
anti-Catholic bias, 287
attitude toward holding public office, 132
backs international control of atomic weapons, 18–19
concern for world peace, 18
denies having political power, 278
enjoys a good scrap, 151
European trip (1956), 263
first formal press conference since leaving White House, 22
George C. Marshall and, 90–92, 96
on her 1956 civil rights stand, 262
her seventieth birthday, 237–38
jobs unrelated to UN assignment, 30–32
on Little Rock crisis, 262
in London for UN Assembly visitors and welcome letters, 26–27
long-hoped-for trip to Soviet Union, 15–16
looking for job to do, 15–18
newspaper column suffers due to Stevenson campaign, 270–71
partial deafness, 48n
slides on floor of Palais des Nations, 57
State Department refuses to allow Red China trip, 271
Tommy’s death, 238
trip to Kansas reminder of advancing age, 283–84
visit to Israel and Arab countries (1952), 130
Westbrook Pegler’s attacks on, 150–51
see also Cold War; Democrats/Democratic party; Palestine question; United Nations
Roosevelt, Eleanor, ambassador:
extraordinary: reports on her journey, 202–3
trip to Chile, 203
trip to Near East, India, and Pakistan, 193, 195–203
visit to Scandinavian and Benelux countries, 188–91
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), 329–3
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Uncle David’s sallies before Soviet guests, 320–21
use of atom bomb on Japan not a mistake (1959), 326n–27n
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, 339n
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