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34. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, March 17, 1943, April 10, 1943, and May 22, 1943.
35. Ibid., May 21, 1943, and April 22, 1943.
36. Sherwood, p. 716; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, May 18, 1943.
37. Letter from Mme. Chiang Kai-shek to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 8, 1943, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, July 26, 1943.
54. GI’S FRIEND, II: THE FIRST LADY AND THE ADMIRAL
1. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Fife, Aug. 5, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 25, 1943.
2. My account of Mrs. Roosevelt’s trip to the South Pacific, unless otherwise noted, is drawn from her diary.
3. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aug. 20, 1943; Pacific Times, Aug. 29, 1943.
4. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Malvina Thompson, Aug. 19, 22, 23, and 25, 1943.
5. William F. Halsey and J. Bryan, Admiral Halsey’s Story (New York, 1946), p. 166.
6. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aug. 26, 1943.
7. Halsey, p. 167.
8. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Malvina Thompson, Sept. 3, 1943; letter from George Durno to Malvina Thompson, undated.
9. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sept. 5, 1943; letter from Nelson T. Johnson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 7, 1943.
10. New York Times, Sept. 6, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Malvina Thompson, Sept. 7, 1943.
11. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Doris Fleeson, Oct. 4, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sept. 6, 1943.
12. Robert M. White, “A Mother at the Front,” the Christian Advocate, Dec. 30, 1943.
13. New York Times, Sept. 12, 1943; letter from Una Merkel to John Golden, April 17, 1944.
14. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Malvina Thompson, Sept. 13, 1943.
15. Russell Smith in Martins Ferry, Daily Times Leader, Nov. 12, 1943.
16. Letter from Joseph P. Lash to Trude Pratt, Sept. 19, 1943.
17. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Louis Weiss, Sept. 30, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Doris Fleeson, Oct. 4, 1943.
18. Halsey, pp. 167–68.
19. Eleanor Roosevelt, press conferences; in Honolulu, Sept. 21, 1943, in San Francisco, Sept. 23, 1943, and in Washington, D.C., Sept. 27, 1943; Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast for war bonds, Sept. 27, 1943.
55. THE 1944 CAMPAIGN
1. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Aug. 26, 1944.
2. Ibid., Oct. 15, 1943.
3. Ibid., Oct. 28, 1943.
4. F. D. Roosevelt, Public Papers, cited (Ch. 13), 1943, pp. 466–97; letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, Nov. 2, 1943.
5. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, Jan. 3, 1944.
6. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Roosevelt, in J. Roosevelt and Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R., cited (Ch. 18), p. 345; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Dec. 5, 1943.
7. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Dec. 2, 1943, and Jan. 2, 1944; letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, Dec. 19, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 3, 1944; F. D. Roosevelt, Letters, cited (Ch. 10), IV, p. 1488.
8. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Jan. 22, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 27, 1944; letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Winston Churchill, March 17, 1943; F. D. Roosevelt, Letters, IV, p. 1413; Margaret Fayerweather, “My Diary in the White House,” unpublished MS., in FDRL.
9. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Nov. 11, 1943.
10. Ibid., Feb. 1, 1944.
11. Franklin D. Roosevelt, press conference, Dec. 28, 1943, reprinted in F. D. Roosevelt, Public Papers, 1943, pp. 569–75; Eleanor Roosevelt, press conference, reported in the New York Times, Jan. 3, 1944; F. D. Roosevelt, Public Papers, 1944, pp. 80–82; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 24, 1944.
12. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Feb. 12, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, March 2, 1944.
13. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 13, 1944.
14. Letter from C. L. Maduro to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 20, 1944; letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 5, 1944.
15. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mme. Vargas, March 15, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 17, 1944; “Analysis of Press Comment Prepared in the Office of Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs,” 1944; letter from Cordell Hull to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 3, 1944.
16. Ross T. McIntire, White House Physician (New York, 1946), p. 143; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, March 30, 1944, and April 2, 1944.
17. McIntire, p. 184; Howard G. Bruenn, “Clinical Nature of Illness and Death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 72, April, 1970.
18. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, May 1, 1944.
19. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, April 25, 1944; McIntire, p. 187; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, May 15, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Roosevelt, May 29, 1944.
20. Letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, May 25, 1944.
21. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, May 19, 1944.
22. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 21, 1944.
23. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, June 16, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, July 4, 1944.
24. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted; J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 317.
25. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
26. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Missy LeHand, Feb. 18, 1944.
27. Letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, July 3, 1944.
28. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Doris Fleeson, May 15, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, April 9, 1944, and May 15, 1944.
29. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, June 6 and 11, 1944, and July 18, 1944.
30. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jonathan Daniels, June 12, 1944.
31. Memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 16, 1944; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruch, Feb. 22, 1944, and July 4 and 23, 1944; memorandum from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruch, undated; letters from Bernard Baruch to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 11 and 28, 1944; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter Reuther, July 13, 1944, and Aug. 7, 1944; letters from Walter Reuther to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 11, 1944, and Aug. 28, 1944; letter from Harry Hopkins to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 9, 1944, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Aug. 12, 1944.
32. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 27, 1943.
33. Letter from Prof. Clyde Eagleton to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 20, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 27, 1943.
34. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 5, 1943; interview with Samuel I. Rosenman.
35. Bernard M. Baruch, The Public Years (New York, 1960), p. 359; letter from James Conant to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 30, 1943.
36. Letter from Irving S. Lowen to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 15, 1944.
37. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 25, 1944; letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Vannevar Bush, March 2, 1944; letter from Vannevar Bush to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 7, 1944.
38. Interview with Eugene Wigner; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, June 25, 1944.
39. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, April 30, 1944.
40. Ibid., June 27, 1944.
41. Ibid., July 2, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Betty Hight, July 4, 1944.
42. Flynn, You’re the Boss, cited (Ch. 33), p. 179; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 16, 1944.
43. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. La
sh, July 14, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Philip Vaughn (“Bennett”), April 22, 1944.
44. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Alice Huntington, Oct. 23, 1944; letters from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, July 5 and 7, 1944.
45. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, cited (Ch. 42), p. 820; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Roosevelt, in J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 353.
46. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Nov. 4, 1944; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Aug. 23, 1944; John M. Blum, Roosevelt and Morgenthau (New York, 1970), pp. 580–81.
47. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Sept. 11, 1944.
48. Letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, Sept. 8, 1944.
49. F. D. Roosevelt, Public Papers, 1944, p. 290.
50. Sherwood, p. 824; Bruenn, op. cit.
51. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Nov. 8, 1944.
52. As quoted in Sherwood, p. 831.
53. Associated Press, Nov. 10, 1944; Eleanor Roosevelt, “How to Take Criticism,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Nov., 1944.
56. DEATH OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
1. Letter from Esther Lape to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 8, 1944.
2. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, July 4, 1944.
3. William D. Hassett, Off the Record with F.D.R., 1942–1945 (Rutgers, 1958), p. 304.
4. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 12, 1944.
5. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
6. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 10, 1945.
7. E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 343.
8. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lady Florence Willert, Feb. 8, 1945; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 21, 1945.
9. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 20, 1945; letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Jesse Jones, in F. D. Roosevelt, Letters, cited (Ch. 10), IV, pp. 1566–67; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jan. 26, 1945.
10. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lt. George Wells, Feb. 22, 1945.
11. James F. Byrnes, All in One Lifetime (New York, 1958), p. 256.
12. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 12, 1945.
13. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 13, 1945.
14. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 28, 1945.
15. Ibid., April 2, 1945.
16. Lilienthal, The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, cited (Ch. 37), III, pp. 363, 364.
17. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 343.
18. Fayerweather, “My Diary in the White House,” cited (Ch. 55) March 28, 1945.
19. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, April 1, 1945.
20. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, April 6, 1945.
21. E. Roosevelt, TIR, pp. 343–44.
22. Bernard Asbell, When F.D.R. Died (New York, 1961), p. 53; New York Times, April 13, 1945; Henry Morgenthau, “A Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt.”
23. Tully, F.D.R. My Boss, cited (Ch. 33), pp. 365–66.
24. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
25. E. Roosevelt, TIR, pp. 348–49.
26. Asbell, p. 161.
27. Interview with Esther Lape.
Index
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Abbott, Dr. Grace, 487–88
Acheson, Dean, 910
Adams, Ellen, 823
Adams, Franklin P., 536
Adams, Fred, 234
Adams, Henry, 231, 292, 448, 780
Adams, Josephine Truslow, 895–97
Addams, Jane, 251, 348
Affectionately, F.D.R. (J. Roosevelt and Shalett), 623
Agricultural Adjustment Act, 480, 534
Albertina (nurse), 44, 45
Aldrich, Winthrop, 809
Alexander, Dr. Will, 508–9, 519, 521, 560, 573, 574, 648, 650, 659–60, 668, 672–73, 675, 700–701, 738, 856
Allen, George, 580
Allen, Judge Florence E., 486
Allen, Robert S., 532, 668
Allenswood, see Roosevelt, Eleanor
Alsop, Joseph, 206, 608, 865
Alsop, Mrs. Joseph (Corinne; cousin), 75, 90, 163–64, 169, 170, 192, 206, 297, 598–99, 666
American Foundation, 354
American Liberty League, 549, 551, 561
American Medical Association, 586–88
American Social Defense Organization, 812
American Student Union, 698, 762, 766
see also Roosevelt, Eleanor
American Unity and Asia (Buck), 852
American Youth Congress, 581, 683, 687–94, 699–700, 701–3, 757, 761–78
see also Roosevelt, Eleanor
Ames, Amvas, 471
Anderson, Marian, 664, 666–68, 738
Anderson, Mary, 291
Appleton, Frank, 23
Archer-Shee, Lucy, 371
Armstrong, Bess Furman, 780
see also Furman, Bess
Arthurdale, see Roosevelt, Eleanor
Asquith, Herbert, 330
Astor, Lady, 845
Auden, W.H., 697
Babies--Just Babies, 445, 467
Backer, Dorothy Schiff, 558, 776
Badoglio, Pietro, 894
Baker, Mary Howe, 546
see also Howe, Mary
Baker, Mrs. Newton D., 265
Baker, Newton D., 423, 433, 681
Balch, Emily, 251
Baldwin, Roger, 897
Bamie, Aunt, see Roosevelt, Anna
Bankhead, Mrs. William B., 766
Barkley, Alben, 789, 792, 794
Barnard, Eunice Fuller, 382
Barnes, James, 918
Barney, Charles, 156
Baruch, Bernard M., 263, 283, 394, 547–48, 591, 816, 820, 898, 900, 918
Arthurdale Resettlement Project and, 502, 503, 509, 512, 515, 517, 520, 521
concerned over Eleanor’s involvement in Youth Congress, 764
Franklin’s attitude toward, 509
and friendship with Eleanor, 509
recommendations on postwar policies, 894–95
Beal, Thomas, 172
Beard, Charles, 119
Beard, Mary R., 72, 119, 468, 477
Behrman, S. N., 534
Bell, Daniel, 553n
Bellamy, Edward, 482
Bellinger, Ruth, 427
Bellows, George, 654
Benes, Eduard, 729, 846
Bennett, Dr., 237, 331–32, 336
Bennett, Marjorie, 92, 93, 115
Bennett, Rep., 827
Benton, Thomas, 654
Berge, Otto, 604
Bernhardt, Sarah, 94
Bernstorff, Count Johann Heinrich von, 249–50, 253
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 559, 649, 661–63, 665, 669, 672, 918
Bevin, Ernest, 841
Bibesco, Elizabeth, 330
Bickel, Karl, 544
Biddle, Elizabeth, 190, 192
Biddle, Francis, 789
Biddle, John, 230
Biddle, Nicholas, 117, 156, 159, 163, 164, 168, 172, 190, 192
Biddle, Peter, 190
Biddle, Tony, 838
Billings, Rev. Sherrard, 168
Bingham, Barry, 657–58
Bingham, Robert W., 747
Birth of a Baby, 722
Bismarck, Count Otto von, 42
Black, Algernon, 918
Black, Ruby, 454, 455, 480, 486, 685, 856
Black Reconstruction (Du Bois), 661
Blaine, James G., 31
Blair, Emily Newell, 54, 401
Bliven, Bruce, 537
Blum, Leon, 798
Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt, see Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor
Boettiger, John, 608, 614, 784, 818, 884, 920
Boettiger, Johnny (grandson), 892, 907
Bok, Edward W., 351–53, 356–
57
Bolte, Charles, 918
Borah, William E., 707, 740–41
Bradley, Charles B., 172
Brandeis, Louis D., 263, 511, 688
Brann, Gov., 573
Bridges, Harry, 584, 761
Brittain, Vera, 571
Brodsky, Bertha, 491
Broun, Heywood, 434, 446, 535, 538, 781
Browder, Earl, 759, 761, 764, 895–98
Browder, Irene, 898
Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey, 360
Brown, Elliot, 378
Brown, Larue, 324
Brown, Lathrop, 158, 160, 171, 172
Brown, Warren, 857
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 87
Browning, Robert, 27
Brudie, see Roosevelt, Hall
Bruenn, Dr. Howard G., 889n
Bryan, Mrs. William Jennings, 226, 230
Bryan, William Jennings, 230, 247, 248, 250, 307
Bryce, James, 213
Buck, Pearl S., 853
brings white-supremacy issue to Roosevelt’s attention, 851, 852
on Eleanor’s lecturing at Cornell, 387
and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek’s U.S. tour, 863–64
see also American Unity and Asia
Buckingham, Dr. D. E., 593
Bugbee, Emma, 191n, 438, 443, 455, 630, 787n
Bullitt, William, 494, 532, 622
Bulloch, Anna, see Gracie, Mrs. James King
Bulloch, Ella, 180
Bulloch, Grandma, 4, 5
Bulloch, Irvine, 5
Bulloch, James, 5
Bulloch, Martha, see Roosevelt, Martha Bulloch
Burden, Gwendolyn, 73, 77, 88, 121
Burden, William A.M., 168–69
Burkenshaw, Hilda (Burky), 93, 101, 102, 103
Burlew, E. K., 497, 499, 504
Bury the Dead (Shaw), 534, 704
Bush, Dr. Vannevar, 899
Butler, Dr. Nicholas Murray, 718
Buttinger, Joseph, 809, 811
Buzz, see Dall, Curtis
Bye, Aunt, see Roosevelt, Anna
Bye, George, 540, 541, 834
Bynner, Witter, 723
Byrd, Otway, 156
Byrd, Richard E., 299, 496, 717
Byrne, Martha, 360
Byrnes, James, 789, 792, 899, 914, 918
Cadden, Joseph, 771
Calder, Capt., 191n, 328, 330
Eleanor gives watch to, 337
Callaghan, Capt. Daniel, 805
Camalier, Renah, 318
Camp, Walter, 283
Camus, Albert, 726
Candida (Shaw), 156–57
Canfield, Cass, 544