FDR - Jean Edward Smith [408]
43. Quoted in Joseph Lash, Love, Eleanor 27 (New York: Doubleday, 1982). From an interview with Helen Gifford by the London Daily Mail in 1942.
44. Mlle. Souvestre to Mrs. Hall, 1899, n.d., FDRL.
45. ER, Autobiography 29–30.
46. In her memoirs, Eleanor said Auntie Tissie “was always kindness itself to me.… She was one of those people whom the word ‘exquisite’ describes best.” Ibid. 20.
47. The comment is by Eleanor’s classmate Dorothy Horn, quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 84.
48. Marie Souvestre to Corinne Robinson (ER’s cousin). Corinne entered Allenwood during Eleanor’s final year. “When I arrived she was ‘everything’ at the school. She was beloved by everybody. Saturdays we were allowed to sortie into Putney which had stores where you could buy books, flowers. Young girls have crushes and you bought violets or a book and left them in the room of the girl you were idolizing. Eleanor’s room every Saturday would be full of flowers because she was so admired.” Corinne Robinson Alsop, unpublished memoir, Alsop Family Papers, Harvard University.
49. ER, Autobiography 35.
50. Quoted in Ward, Before the Trumpet 303.
51. Elliott Roosevelt, Untold Story 33.
52. “Eleanor has a very good mind,” Franklin told Sara. Quoted in Ward, Before the Trumpet 307.
53. Elliott Roosevelt, Untold Story 33.
54. ER to FDR, January 4, 1904, FDRL.
55. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 139.
56. ER’s letter is in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 135.
57. Quoted in Ward, Before the Trumpet 319. Also see Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 138.
58. ER to FDR, October 12, 1904, quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 136.
59. Corinne Robinson Alsop’s unpublished journals, Alsop Family Papers, Harvard University.
60. The congratulatory letters, variously dated, are in the wedding folders, Box 20, FDRL.
61. TR to ER, December 19, 1904; TR to FDR, November 29, 1904, Box 20, FDRL.
62. TR received 7.6 million votes to Parker’s 5.1 million. Eugene Debs, the Socialist candidate, received .4 million. Roosevelt carried every state except the Solid South, which went for Parker.
63. January 8, 1938, 1938 Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt 38, Samuel I. Rosenman, ed. (New York: Random House, 1939).
64. Contrary to popular belief, TR did not mention his trademark “square deal” in his inaugural address. See instead his Labor Day speech to the New York State Fair in Syracuse, September 7, 1903, or his remarks to the veterans of the Civil War in Springfield, Illinois, July 4, 1903.
65. James Roosevelt Roosevelt, FDR’s half brother, was in Florida at the time of the wedding and unable to attend.
66. ER, Autobiography 50. The New York Times noted that Eleanor was “considerably taller than the head of the nation, suggesting to many present her beautiful mother.… She has much of that simple grace that characterized her mother.” March 18, 1905. Town Topics reported one guest to have said, “the bridegroom had been especially handsome,” to which another added, “Surprising for a Roosevelt.”
67. Teague, Mrs. L. 156.
FOUR | Albany
The epigraph is from a conversation between Ed Perkins, Democratic chairman of Dutchess County, and FDR in September 1910, preparatory to Roosevelt’s acceptance of the Democratic nomination for the State Senate. Interview with Ed Perkins, quoted in Ted Morgan, FDR: A Biography 112 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985).
1. John Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect 201 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950). Donovan, who won the Distinguished Service Cross at Saint-Mihiel, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his action at Landres-et-Saint-Georges, October 14 and 15, 1918. According to the citation: “Lt. Col. Donovan personally led the assaulting wave in an attack