Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 12/26/1938
Washington, Sunday—Christmas Day and Christmas Eve lie behind us. The 24th of December is always for me the embodiment of...
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Washington, Sunday—Christmas Day and Christmas Eve lie behind us. The 24th of December is always for me the embodiment of...
WASHINGTON—Yesterday afternoon James1 and Betsey and their two children arrived and the children settled down on the third floor wh...
WASHINGTON, Tuesday—I was late arriving at the Office of Civilian Defense yesterday morning because, the President who has been ve...
WASHINGTON, Friday—Miss Thompson1 and I arrived in Washington in what seemed the depths of the night, but it was re...
WASHINGTON, Sunday—I must go back to tell you something of what has been going on the last few days, fo...
WASHINGTON, Sunday—I said goodbye to Franklin, Junior1 on Friday afternoon and took the five o'clock train to New York, ex...
WASHINGTON, Thursday—The other day Dr. Wu Yi-Fang1 lunched with me and brought me a little piece of embroidery from th...
WASHINGTON, Friday—Last night we had a rather large gathering of various family groups at Christmas dinner. The number of co...
WASHINGTON, Friday—Yesterday was such a glorious day and we dawdled a good deal on the way down, and did no...
WASHINGTON, Thursday—Yesterday afternoon, with the rain falling intermittently and gray skies, the Queen of the Netherlands1 came to Washington. It...
WASHINGTON, Thursday—Like any other housewife, after a busy day, I have been taking stock of yesterday's activities! I wrote ye...
WASHINGTON, Friday—I arrived back in Washington yesterday morning and plunged into a vortex of inauguration preparations. I went to me...