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from her trips, she often told him what
she’d seen and pressed him to act. She
helped orchestrate government programs
for half-starved miners in Appalachia.
She urged FDR to include women
and African-Americans in his programs
to put people back to work. And
she helped arrange for Marian Anderson
to sing at the Lincoln Memorial.
“She kept at him on issues which he
might, in the rush of things, have
wanted to overlook,” the historian
Geoff Ward has said. “She kept him to a
high standard. Anyone who ever saw
her lock eyes with him and say, ‘Now
Franklin, you should …’ never forgot it.”
The shy young woman who’d been
terrified of public speaking grew to
love public life. Eleanor Roosevelt became
the first First Lady to hold a press
conference, address a national convention,
write a newspaper column, and
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