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91. Roosevelt and Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R. 205.
92. Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior 18 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928).
93. Davis, Invincible Summer 31.
94. The New York Times, July 10, 1924; New York Herald Tribune, July 1, 1924; Pendergast’s comment is quoted in Ike B. Dunlap to FDR, July 10, 1924. Pendergast predicted Roosevelt would be the nominee in 1928. FDRL.
95. Frances Perkins interview, Columbia Oral History Project, Columbia University.
96. Davis, Invincible Summer 31.
ELEVEN | Governor
The epigraph is from a letter Sara wrote FDR after learning of his decision to run for governor. “Eleanor telephoned me before I got my papers that you have to ‘run’ for governorship,” said Sara. “If you do run, I want you not to be defeated.” SDR to FDR, October 2, 1928, FDRL (Sara’s emphasis).
1. Blanche Wiesen Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 316 (New York: Viking Penguin, 1992).
2. Frances Perkins interview, Columbia Oral History Project, Columbia University.
3. Geoffrey C. Ward, A First-Class Temperament 631 (New York: Harper & Row, 1989).
4. Kenneth S. Davis, Invincible Summer: An Intimate Portrait of the Roosevelts Based on the Recollections of Marion Dickerman 35 (New York: Atheneum, 1974).
5. FDR to Elliott Brown, August 5, 1924, FDRL.
6. Quoted in Davis, Invincible Summer 50.
7. Quoted in Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 325.
8. Quoted in Ward, First-Class Temperament 740.
9. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 334.
10. Mary McLeod Bethune, “My Secret Talks with FDR,” Ebony (April 1949).
11. FDR to SDR, October, 1924, 2 The Roosevelt Letters 445, Elliott Roosevelt, ed. (London: George G. Harrap, 1950).
12. Editor’s note, ibid. 447–448.
13. FDR to SDR, October 1924, 2 Roosevelt Letters 447.
14. Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., Roosevelt and Howe 203–205 (New York: Knopf, 1962). Blanche Wiesen Cook suggests Howe and Sara opposed the Warm Springs venture but offers no evidence. Cf. 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 336.
15. FDR lent the $201,677.83 to the Warm Springs Foundation and in return received a demand note for that amount, dated February 29, 1928. The money was gradually repaid over the years, the last installment after the president’s death. The repayment history is printed in Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember 367–368 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949).
16. “Mrs. Ford and I are deeply impressed with the wonderful work which is being carried out at Warm Springs,” Ford wrote FDR on March 15, 1928. “I am sending herewith a check for twenty-five thousand dollars which I hope you will accept for the Foundation with our best wishes for its complete success.” 2 Roosevelt Letters 500n.
17. FDR to Paul Hasbrouck, Hasbrouck papers, FDRL.
18. Ward, First-Class Temperament 770.
19. Ibid. 758.
20. Roosevelt received 97.8 percent of the votes in Merriweather County in 1932; 94.6 percent in 1936; 93.7 percent in 1940; and 92.0 percent in 1944. His Dutchess County totals were 43.5 percent (1932); 45.0 percent (1936); 44.1 percent (1940); and 40.8 percent (1944). America at the Polls: A Handbook of American Presidential Election Statistics 100–106, 313–317, Richard M. Scammon, ed. (Pittsburgh: Governmental Affairs Institute, 1965).
21. Ward, First-Class Temperament 765 (italics in original).
22. Rexford Tugwell papers, FDRL.
23. FDR to SDR, October 13, 1926, 2 Roosevelt Letters 486.
24. Editor’s note, ibid. 492.
25. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 398–408.
26. ER to Jane Hoey, April 9, 1930, FDRL.
27. The New York Times, October 10, 1929.
28. The New York Times Magazine, December 4, 1932.
29. Jan Pottker, Sara and Eleanor 230–232 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004).
30. James Roosevelt and Sidney Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R. 161 (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1959).
31. Howe to FDR, n.d. (summer 1926), FDRL.
32. In a two-man race, Smith received 1,523,813 votes to Republican Ogden Mills’s 1,276,137. Mills, a sitting member of Congress, was a Harvard classmate and Dutchess County neighbor of FDR and later served as Herbert Hoover’s secretary of the Treasury.