'No Ordinary Time' Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II.
Washington Monthly › Vol. 26 Nbr. 9, September 1994
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'No Ordinary Time' Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II.
In early 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked his daughter Anna to become his hostess, filling in for the peripatetic first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. World War II was at a critical stage, and FDR would have to decide whether to run later that year for his fourth term.
Anna tried to shield the already ill president from strain and stress, but Eleanor, a self-described "pest," often made this difficult. At...See the full content of this document
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