By Leonard C. Schlup, Donald W. Whisenhunt
Essentially the most very important girls of the yank Century, Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was once additionally one in every of its so much prolific letter writers. but by no means sooner than has a range of her letters to public figures, global leaders, and members outdoor her kin been made on hand to basic readers and to historians not able to go to the documents at Hyde Park. it sort of feels to Me demonstrates Roosevelt's value as a stateswoman baby-kisser, relatively after her husband's loss of life in 1945. those letters display a size of her character usually misplaced in collections of letters to relatives and acquaintances - that of a sensible, self-confident lady unafraid to talk her brain. In her letters, Eleanor Roosevelt lectured Truman, badgered Eisenhower, and critiqued Kennedy. She disagreed with the Catholic Church over relief to parochial faculties, made concepts for political appointments, and expressed her opinion at the conviction of Alger Hiss. a few letters reveal her dedication to civil rights, many her knowing of chilly warfare politics, and nonetheless others her help of work unions. As an entire this assortment presents certain insights into either Eleanor Roosevelt's public existence in addition to American tradition and politics through the a long time following international warfare II.
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Wilson's5 and my point of view is that a family shall have a sufficient means of livlihood and the assurance of an ability to pay their expenses covering a standard which we hope to establish as something to shoot at in all rural industrial communities. As soon as this becomes concrete at all I am going to ask you to give us the benefit of your advice. My deepest thanks to you for your interest. You can not imagine what a pleasure it is to feel we may count upon you for advice and cooperation. Very cordially yours, Notes 1.
My warmest sympathy and admiration go out to the Generalissimo1 and to you as you lead China through her sixth year of hostilities. Sincerely yours, Note 1. Chiang Kai-shek. (eanor (Rooseveft to 'Madame Cfiiang QCai-sfiefz September 17,1942 In 1942 Mrs. Roosevelt correspondedfrequently with Madame Chiang Kai-shek. She still had not met the wife of the Chinese leader, but she repeated her desire to do so. Mrs. Roosevelt also offered the White House as a place for convalescence. The Roosevelts were known for opening the executive mansion to various guests, foreign and domestic.
It is significant that this ruling came immediately after Governor Talmadge of Georgia had visited the President recently at Warm Springs. Talmadge, as you know, has been the outstanding opponent of the thirty cents wage scale for work relief. Of course, he was not the only governor present at the Warm Springs conference but he was the particular one whom all the newspapers "played up" before the conference as one who was knocking the administration and particularly the FERA on the point of this thirty cents an hour wage scale, along with certain other features of the recovery program.