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In the meantime, Eleanor found herself
with a full calendar of social duties.
She was expected to pay visits to the
wives of other Washington luminaries,
leaving calling cards at their doors and
holding open houses in her own home.
She didn’t relish this role, so she hired
a social secretary named Lucy Mercer
to help her. Which seemed a good
idea—until the summer of 1917, when
Eleanor took the children to Maine for
the summer, leaving Franklin behind in
Washington with Mercer. The two
began a lifelong affair. Lucy was just
the kind of lively beauty Franklin had
been expected to marry in the first
place.
Eleanor found out about Franklin’s
betrayal when she stumbled on a packet
of love letters in his suitcase. She
was devastated, but stayed in the marriage.
And although they never
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