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45. Blanche Wiesen Cook, 2 Eleanor Roosevelt 317 (New York: Viking, 1999). ER’s friendship with Baruch began when they sailed for Europe on the same ship in November 1918. Throughout the 1920s Baruch supported Eleanor’s concerns financially, and by the 1930s ER was referring to him as “one of the wisest and most generous people I have ever known.” Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember 256 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949).
46. Roosevelt Family Papers, FDRL, quoted in Ward, First-Class Temperament 251n.
47. Thomas A. Krueger and William Glidden, “The New Deal Intellectual Elite,” in The Rich, the Well Born, and the Powerful 344, Fred Cople Jaher, ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973).
48. FDR to Philip Slomovitz, March 7, 1935, FDRL.
49. The Comstock Act, passed by Congress on March 3, 1873, was primarily an anti-obscenity measure that closed the mails to “obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious” printed matter. It also made it a crime to disseminate information or devices relating to birth control. Its birth control provisions were challenged by Margaret Sanger following her arrest for opening the nation’s first birth control clinic in 1916 (People v. Sanger, 118 N.E. 637 [N.Y. 1918]), and was not completely overturned until United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries in 1936.
50. ER uttered these words to her daughter, Anna, at the time of Anna’s marriage in June 1926. They were repeated by Anna to her daughter, Eleanor Seagraves, who confirmed them to Blanche Wiesen Cook. 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 536 (New York: Viking Penguin, 1992).
51. James Roosevelt with Bill Libby, My Parents: A Differing View 97 (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976).
52. Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park 81 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973). Sleeping arrangements at Hyde Park would confirm the children’s assessment. When the house was redone in 1916, there were three new bedrooms above the mammoth first-floor library. Sara occupied the large one facing the Albany Post Road, Franklin had another large one facing the river, and Eleanor had a small one in between. On June 14, 1918, Sara wrote Franklin about buying a new desk for “her” [ER’s] room; a year later Sara wrote her son about the two big rooms, “yours” and “mine.” Roosevelt Family Papers, FDRL. Compare Eleanor Roosevelt, “I Remember Hyde Park,” McCall’s (February 1963).
53. “Standards were different in those days,” recalled Robert Donovan of the Associated Press. “I’m sure there were some reporters, friends of the White House, who knew about Lucy. But none of them ever thought about exposing the situation. The newspaper business in those days was not so damn serious as it is today. It was a hell of a lot more fun.” Quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time 518 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).
54. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Ellen Feldman, Lucy: A Novel 1 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003).
55. Elliott Roosevelt, An Untold Story 73. “Though she was a paid employee … she was a lady to her fingertips.”
56. Michael Teague, Mrs. L: Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth 157–158 (New York: Doubleday, 1981). “I think their relationship [FDR’s and Lucy’s] was very much a lonely-boy-meets-girl thing. The rose behind the ear, the snipped-off lock of hair. That kind of thing.”
57. Quoted in Bernard Asbell, The F.D.R. Memoirs 229 (New York: Doubleday, 1973).
58. Letter, Captain Lyman B. Cotton, Jr., USN, to Jonathan Daniels, January 29, 1967, quoted in Daniels, Washington Quadrille: The Dance Beside the Documents 157 (New York: Doubleday, 1968).
59. Davis, FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny 488. Olive Clapper, Washington Tapestry (New York: Whittlesey House, 1946).
60. Roy Jenkins, Franklin Delano Roosevelt 35–36 (New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003).
61. FDR was the youngest of the fifteen assistant secretaries who served between 1860 (when the position was established)