Now I shall have to work out my own salvation.” A devotee of progressive causes and a veteran political helpmate (Franklin had been assistant secretary of the Navy and then governor of New York), Eleanor didn’t shrink from public service but she was dismayed at the loss of privacy being a first lady would entail, and she worried that her position would keep her from the activism that gave meaning to her life. “Being a Democrat, I believe this change is for the better,” she said, but she “never wanted to be a president’s wife. . . When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president of the United States in November 1932, his wife, Eleanor, made an extraordinary admission to the Associated Press reporter on the Roosevelt beat. ELEANOR AND HICK The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady By Susan Quinn Illustrated.
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