What do you like about her and what is most meomrable or what did you not like about her?
2006-08-10 12:52:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I most admire that she facilitated the creation of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The second thing would be inviting the African-American opera singer, Marian Anderson, to sing at the Lincoln Memorial after the DAR refused to allow her to sing at their auditorium. ER also resigned her membership in the DAR.
She was quite a woman. I gave my daughter the name Eleanor as a middle name. So Fritz, put a sock in it.
2006-08-10 16:38:12 · answer #1 · answered by mistersato 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I admire her tremendous kind-heartedness toward people in every cconomic condition, leading her to invite everybody to dinner that she saw, including the gardener or the plumber who happened to be working at her house. Also, as FDR's "missus", she served as spokesman for many people adn causes that otherwise would never have gotten a presidential hearing. She was on the cutting edge on social causes. It is over-stating it very little to term her the queen among American First :Ladies. It is a mystery how a woman of so much wealth, deserted in childhood by the weakling of a father that she adored, could develop such a great heart, loving everybody, without a trace of snobbery in her soul. That great women have not had, and do not yet have, a serious chance to become President is America's tragedy, cutting the pool of viable candidates in half!
2006-08-10 13:20:26 · answer #2 · answered by John (Thurb) McVey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it was how strong she was because nobody loved her when she was little except for her father. Her mother just thought she was ugly and when her brothers were born she was left out of the picture. She was invisible to almost everybody and i would feel sorry because she married her 5th cousin. WHO WAS RELATED TO HER!!!
but as she grew up she became interested in politics and it made people notice her. On my opinion i think she was also dedicated to her work because she wanted people to know her as Eleanore Roosevelt not the ugly duckling. she had so many distractions in her life but she worked hard and succeeded.
2006-08-10 13:05:36 · answer #3 · answered by jj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mrs. Roosevelt received a letter from my grandma in 1935. My grandma had lots of kids and my grandpa was out of work. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote back that she would like to help, and then the WPA came around and gave Grandpa a job. When I was a kid, that letter was framed and hung in their dining room along with a picture of FDR.
2006-08-10 15:43:32 · answer #4 · answered by soxrcat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My father told us stories about Eleanore Roosevelt. She did a lot of traveling for her husband. When asked why she was traveling so much she (apparently said) "I am my husband's legs."
My father was wounded in WWII and walked with a pronounced limp. He was very impressed with her. If he was impressed, we were impressed.
She did a lot of public speaking acting on behalf of her husband, and later causes she supported. I thought she was a great lady.
2006-08-10 13:00:17 · answer #5 · answered by Malika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best thing I liked about Eleanore Roosevelt? She finally had the good graces to die!
2006-08-10 17:05:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
That she was loved even though she had a relationship with a woman. I'm not joking, I discovered that during research for a paper.
2006-08-10 12:58:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely nothing. I think she's the most overrated of all the First Ladies.
2006-08-14 04:55:28 · answer #8 · answered by nacmanpriscasellers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He marrying her cousin FDR.
2006-08-10 12:57:59 · answer #9 · answered by tbone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she could make a rottweiler run just by lookin at it
2006-08-10 13:17:44 · answer #10 · answered by el.tuco 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋