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marriage proposal in 1903, he proclaimed
himself the happiest man alive.
She responded with a flood of love letters.
They were married in 1905 and
went on to have six children.
Despite the excitement of their courtship,
their differences caused trouble
from the start. Eleanor craved intimacy
and weighty conversations; he loved
parties, flirting, and gossip. The man
who would declare that he had nothing
to fear but fear itself could not understand
his wife’s struggles with shyness.
When Franklin was appointed assistant
secretary of the navy in 1913, the pace
of his social life grew ever more frenzied
and the settings more gilded—elite
private clubs, his Harvard friends’ mansions.
He caroused later and later into
the night. Eleanor went home earlier
and earlier.
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