His extensive secret files contained surveillance material on Eleanor Roosevelt's alleged lesbian lovers, speculated to be acquired for the purpose of blackmail, as well as material on presidents ' liaisons, including those of John F. Kennedy.

Theodore Roosevelt was distantly related by birth to the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( they were fifth cousins ), and he was the uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.

* Text, Audio, and Video excerpt of Eleanor Roosevelt's Address to the United Nations on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

* Text, Audio, and Video excerpt of Eleanor Roosevelt's Address to the United Nations on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

To Stevenson's dismay, former president Truman endorsed Harriman, but the blow was softened by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's continued support.

Author Zora Neale Hurston criticized Eleanor Roosevelt's public silence about the similar decision by the District of Columbia Board of Education, while the District was under the control of committees of a Democratic Congress, to first deny, and then place race-based restrictions on, a proposed concert by Anderson.

Sign inside Selbyville Public Library, commemorating former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's visit in 1946

She followed up with a turn as Eleanor Roosevelt for HBO's Warm Springs ( 2005 ), which chronicled Franklin Delano Roosevelt's quest for a miracle cure for his polio.

In 1936 President Roosevelt's brief experiment with sideburns, grown on a yachting cruise, provoked only laughter from his wife Eleanor.

Arthurdale, West Virginia, a federally funded New Deal community, was Eleanor Roosevelt's project to ease the burden of the depression on coal miners.

In September 1940, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt maneuvered with another State Department official to bypass Hull's refusal to allow Jewish refugees aboard a Portuguese ship, the Quanza, to receive visas to enter the U. S. Through Mrs. Roosevelt's efforts, the Jewish refugees disembarked on September 11, 1940, in Virginia.

Daniels, along with his son Jonathan, were passengers on Franklin Roosevelt's 1945 funeral train onwards from Raleigh, North Carolina until the burial at Roosevelt's Hyde Park, New York burial at his home, Springwood, and then back to Washington in the company of new President Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt

In 1928, Dewson entered politics more personally, organizing Democratic women for Al Smith's presidential campaign at Eleanor Roosevelt's request.

He served as a page at Franklin D. Roosevelt's wedding to Eleanor in March 1905 at the age of 12.

Mother R .: Eleanor Roosevelt's Untold Story, also with Brough, was published in 1977 ; The Conservators, a political book, in 1982.

The " Bergson Group " led by Hillel Kook was the most vocal group of activists calling for rescue, had considerable support in Congress and Senate as well from Eleanor Roosevelt and prepared the ground for Roosevelt's eventual decision.

Elzy entertained at the White House, December 15, 1937, for First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's luncheon for the wives of U. S. Supreme Court Justices.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship with the AYC eventually led to the formation of the National Youth Administration.

In 1940, despite Eleanor Roosevelt's publication of reasons called " Why I still believe in the Youth Congress ," the American Youth Congress was disbanded.

Although at first the Department of Agriculture objected to Eleanor Roosevelt's institution of a victory garden on the White House grounds, fearing that such a movement would hurt the food industry, basic information about gardening appeared in public services booklets distributed by the Department of Agriculture, as well as by agribusiness corporations such as International Harvester and Beech-Nut.

In March 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama, planted an " Kitchen Garden " on the White House lawn, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt's, to raise awareness about healthy food.

During Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit to India, the first lady of the USA Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt stayed at the Residency.

Instead, he was given responsibility for Eleanor Roosevelt's visit to Australia in September 1943.

As these were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for obtaining a title, William had dictated a will on the very day he died, bequeathing his domains to Eleanor and appointing King Louis VI of France as her guardian.

Others, such as Polly Schoyer Brooks ( the author of a non-academic biography of Eleanor ), suggest that the court did exist, but that it was not taken very seriously and that the acts of Courtly Love were just a “ parlor game ” made up by Eleanor and Marie in order to place some order over the young courtiers living there.

Amy Kelly, in her article “ Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Courts of Love ”, gives a very plausible description of the origins of the rules of Eleanor's court: “ in the Poitevin code, man is the property, the very thing of woman ; whereas a precisely contrary state of things existed in the adjacent realms of the two kings from whom the reigning duchess of Aquitaine was estranged .”

Eleanor spent the next few years conspiring against her husband Henry and neither parent played a part in John's very early life.

Segregation was still very much in existence during the war, but it was not supported by Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt.

When the town was developed, the houses were built to look very similar to one another and are now referred to as old Eleanor houses.

Peckham was very strict in his interpretations of canon law, and once wrote to Queen Eleanor that her use of loans from Jewish moneylenders to acquire lands was usury and a mortal sin.

In a 1967 interview, however, Townshend complimented one of The Beatles ' songs: " I think " Eleanor Rigby " was a very important musical move forward.

The period at which Cercamon lived is determined by a piece where he alludes very clearly to the approaching marriage of the king of France, Louis VII, with Eleanor of Aquitaine ( 1137 ).

Her romance and marriage to Simon de Montfort are very much romanticized in this novel, especially since in real life Simon is killed the year following the Battle of Lewes and the pair had already had all 7 of their children ; in the book, Eleanor and Simon have only just had their first two sons.

Henry's mother was Princess Eleanor of England ( daughter of King John ), whose marriage to Simon further increased the foreign influence begun by the king, which was to result in great hostility by those very barons who later revolted against the king.

Henry II emerged victorious: because of his wealth he could recruit very large amount of mercenaries, and he had captured and imprisoned Eleanor early on as well as captured William the Lion and forced him into the Treaty of Falaise.

He was murdered by his nobles, but left a very devoted wife Eleanor of Aragon ( supposedly he took her nightgown with him on his campaigns ), who with the help of the Italians pursued the assassins.

Linda Vista was home of the very first mall-type shopping center in the United States, which was dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Due to this, her father very much wants Eleanor to marry into the wealthier, but lower class, Jones family.

: Eleanor is a very shy girl, yet in the same time she always tries to catch William's attention, for example by inviting him into a tea-party in her mansion, and visiting to William's mansion for ' seeing the rose blooming '.

Peter did not lead the resistance against Genoese, but left it to his uncles, John and James I. Oppositely, the young king, who was with his mother Eleanor on Famagusta, he only managed to lose a very important city-harbour and to be arrested as captive.

The Glanville Fritillary is named for Lady Eleanor Glanville, an eccentric 17th and 18th century English butterfly enthusiast – a very unusual occupation for a woman at that time.

This made Eleanor a very attractive offer to Ferdinand.