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Roosevelt relished the company of pretty, attentive women, and flirting with them was one of his favorite pastimes.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Arthur Schlesinger put the romance into perspective: “If Lucy Mercer in any way helped Franklin Roosevelt sustain the frightful burdens of leadership in the Second World War, the nation has good reason to be grateful to her.”
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
“You were not made to live like animals/But to pursue virtue and know the world,”
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
“Do you really believe that Franklin has a political future?” asked Eleanor. “I believe someday Franklin will be President,” Howe replied.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Alfred Adler, the famous Viennese psychologist, wrote a book entitled What Life Should Mean to You. In that book he says: “It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
Albert Einstein
the greatest contribution; they will have to learn to develop themselves.
Joseph A. Maciariello • A Year With Peter Drucker
Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor’s elegant biographer, noted, “ER’s caustic comments concerning Jews remained a routine part of her social observation for many years, diminishing as her friendship with Baruch and other Jews flourished.”
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.