Eleanor Roosevelt

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Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman however '''were''' there and when a letter arrived from Eleanor expressing her profound unhappiness about the possibility of Franklin being '''chosen''', they showed it to Louis Howe.  Promptly destroying it, he ordered them never to mention the contents of that letter to anyone. (Farber, p. 86)
 
Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman however '''were''' there and when a letter arrived from Eleanor expressing her profound unhappiness about the possibility of Franklin being '''chosen''', they showed it to Louis Howe.  Promptly destroying it, he ordered them never to mention the contents of that letter to anyone. (Farber, p. 86)
  
In 1932, Franklin ran for and was elected US President and the family moved into the White House, in Washington, DC.  It was about this time that Eleanor met [[Lorena Hickok]], a female journalist for AP, assigned to cover part of the Roosevelt story.
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Now the campaign began in earnest, with FDR, Eleanor and family on a cross-country train trip to shake hands and kiss babies.  It was now that the relationship between Eleanor and [[Lorena Hickok]], a female journalist for AP, assigned to cover part of the Roosevelt story began to deepen.  Another relationship was forming on that cross-country train as well.  Mrs. Anna Dall, the married daughter of FDR and Eleanor, met and fell in-love with journalist John Boettiger, assigned by the ''Chicago Tribune''.  Some months later, she seperated from her husband Curtis, obtained a Nevada divorce and in early 1935 married Boettiger.
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In 1932, Franklin was handily elected US President and the family moved into the White House, in Washington, DC.
  
 
==Secondary Sources==
 
==Secondary Sources==

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