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Democratic Party and one of the mostinfluential women in American politics.She and Franklin were now a fullyfunctioning partnership of his savoirfaire and her social conscience. “I knewabout social conditions, perhaps morethan he did,” Eleanor recalled withcharacteristic modesty. “But he knewabout government and how you coulduse government to improve things. AndI think we began to get an understandingof teamwork.”FDR was elected president in 1933. Itwas the height of the Depression, andEleanor traveled the country—in asingle three-month period she covered40,000 miles—listening to ordinarypeople tell their hard-luck stories.People opened up to her in ways theydidn’t for other powerful figures. Shebecame for Franklin the voice of thedispossessed. When she returned home402/929
from her trips, she often told him whatshe’d seen and pressed him to act. Shehelped orchestrate government programsfor half-starved miners in Appalachia.She urged FDR to include womenand African-Americans in his programsto put people back to work. Andshe helped arrange for Marian Andersonto sing at the Lincoln Memorial.“She kept at him on issues which hemight, in the rush of things, havewanted to overlook,” the historianGeoff Ward has said. “She kept him to ahigh standard. Anyone who ever sawher lock eyes with him and say, ‘NowFranklin, you should …’ never forgot it.”The shy young woman who’d beenterrified of public speaking grew tolove public life. Eleanor Roosevelt becamethe first First Lady to hold a pressconference, address a national convention,write a newspaper column, and403/929
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Democratic Party and one of the most
influential women in American politics.
She and Franklin were now a fully
functioning partnership of his savoir
faire and her social conscience. “I knew
about social conditions, perhaps more
than he did,” Eleanor recalled with
characteristic modesty. “But he knew
about government and how you could
use government to improve things. And
I think we began to get an understanding
of teamwork.”
FDR was elected president in 1933. It
was the height of the Depression, and
Eleanor traveled the country—in a
single three-month period she covered
40,000 miles—listening to ordinary
people tell their hard-luck stories.
People opened up to her in ways they
didn’t for other powerful figures. She
became for Franklin the voice of the
dispossessed. When she returned home
402/929
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