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62. Arthur C. Murray, At Close Quarters 85 (London: John Murray, 1946).
63. Admiral W. Sheffield Cowles to FDR, August 17, 1917, FDRL.
64. Quoted in John Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect 214 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950).
65. The dowager was the famed Washington socialite Margot Oxford. Ibid.
66. Jenkins, Franklin Delano Roosevelt 36.
67. Michael Teague, Mrs. L 157–158. Joseph P. Lash quotes Mrs. Longworth in a similar manner, based on his own interview with her. Eleanor and Franklin 226.
68. Elliott Roosevelt, An Untold Story 82.
69. Henry Brandon, “A Talk with an 83-year-old Enfant-Terrible [ARL],” The New York Times Magazine, August 6, 1967.
70. Levi Morton, the son of a Vermont preacher, made a fortune in New York banking, ranking with the Drexels and Morgans in post–Civil War American finance. His firm, Morton Trust Company, later became the foundation of the Guaranty Trust Company. Morton served in Congress and was vice president under Benjamin Harrison and later governor of New York. Ellerslie, his great country house on the Hudson, was near Hyde Park. The Roosevelts and Mortons made several Atlantic crossings together and often went to the Adirondacks for winter sports with Franklin and the Morton daughters in tow. Jonathan Daniels, Washington Quadrille 163–164.
71. In his edited collection of his father’s letters, Elliott noted that “during the war years F.D.R. frequently spent the evenings with the Eustis family,” 2 The Roosevelt Letters 227n.
72. Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography 86 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961). The quote originally appeared in ER’s This Is My Story, published in 1937. Also see Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 222–223.
73. Elliott Roosevelt, An Untold Story 83.
74. Ibid. 86.
75. FDR to ER, July 16, 1917, 2 Roosevelt Letters 280 (FDR’s emphasis).
76. The New York Times, July 17, 1917. The text of the Times article is reprinted in 2 Roosevelt Letters 282–283n.
77. FDR to ER, July 18, 1917, ibid. 282.
78. ER to FDR, July 20, 1917, ibid. 283n.
79. According to Elliott, “Mother arrived with a long list of complaints to make. She was lonely for his presence in Campobello.… She was tired of the string of excuses he had been making for not leaving Washington. He did not even bother to read the letters she sent ‘for you never answer a question and nothing I ask appears.’ She even chided him for neglecting Granny by not taking the trouble to go to Hyde Park.” An Untold Story 89.
80. ER to FDR, August 15, 1917, FDRL (ER’s emphasis).
81. Morgan, FDR: A Biography 205. Ward, First-Class Temperament 369.
82. Elliott Roosevelt, An Untold Story 89.
83. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 224.
84. Jonathan Daniels, Washington Quadrille 148.
85. Mrs. Daniels was close friends with Mary Patten, ER’s Red Cross co-worker, and Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, both of whom spread stories about Franklin and Lucy that autumn. Letter, Mrs. Charles Sumner Hamlin to Jonathan Daniels, February 19, 1955, ibid. 132.
86. ER to Lorena Hickok, October 1932, Hickok Papers, FDRL.
87. ER to SDR, January 22, 1918, FDRL.
88. ER to SDR, March 18, 1918, FDRL.
89. Daniels gave FDR a carte blanche. His instructions were to (1) inspect U.S. naval forces with particular attention to administrative and business organization; (2) to coordinate with other branches in order to coordinate naval activities with their enterprises; (3) gather information pertaining to general conditions abroad and their applicability to naval affairs; and (4) investigate any other matters he deemed advisable. 2 Roosevelt Letters 301.
90. FDR’s extensive diary entries for his crossing on the Dyer and his stay in Europe are reproduced in ibid. 301–316.
91. Ibid. 327–328.
92. Ibid 326. FDR’s Aunt Dora, Sara’s older sister, had refused to leave her Paris apartment even when the city’s fall appeared imminent.