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Eleanor Roosevelt’s sexuality was always very questionable. After Franklin’s well known affair, Eleanor didn’t feel the same towards him. It was said that after the affair she really didn’t love him anymore and she was just in the marriage for her kids and the public eye. Eleanor always had a special thing for women. She was known as the first lady of the world and she would make rallies for women all of that and she must’ve grown a different interest in women. The woman said to be Eleanor to be her lover was Lorena Hickok. There was said that over 3,500 letters and many were destroyed by Lorena. Eleanor would write how much she wantd to hold her and kiss her but couldn’t. This is some of the many letters Eleanor sent her: “Hick darling, All day I've thought of you & another birthday I will be with you, & yet tonite you sounded so far away & formal. Oh! I want to put my arms around you. I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort to me. I look at it and think she does love me, or I wouldn't be wearing it. “

and this one is from Lorena to Eleanor:
“I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips." Lorena concluded that letter with, "Good night, dear one. I want to put my arms around you and kiss you at the corner of your mouth. And in a little more than a week now--I shall!"

In her entire lifetime she never came out saying she was a lesbian or a bisexual. But after her death the truth came out of her love affair with Lorena. It wasn’t just a rumor because all of those letters are the proof.
http://lesbianlife.about.com/cs/herstory/a/Eleanor.htm
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n770/ai_21236434

Wrold War 2

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Eleanor Roosevelt like any other American didn't like the idea of going to war. She was hoping we stuck to our word and stood neutral. But unlike the rest she thought realistically and knew it was only a matter of time before America would join the war. She was really involved with the war even though Franklin wasn't president anymore. She was very unhappy with William Jennings Bryan which was the Secretary of State. She called his submarine attack an outrage, and was actually glad when he resigned. The president announced at the cabinet that America had to go to war because "the world must be made safe for democracy". When America joined the war, Eleanor like many other women went to support the troops. She worked in the American Red Cross helping the wounded, and sick. She joined because she was very disappointed with the treatment the soldiers were receiving. They should get the best cause I mean their putting their life on the line for us. During the war Eleanor accompanied Franklin to Europe. While there she visited all the sites of war, all their hospitals. She hated the feeling she said "as though ghosts were beside you." All those lives lost for nothing. Eleanor hated the fact of war but still thought we should fight to defend democracy.

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Life in the White House

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Franklin became president in 1933. Eleanor kind of knew how it was to be the first lady because she had seen her aunt Edith with her uncle Theodore. She really worked with her husband to make the nation right. She made endless efforts to make things right. She came out of under the shadow of her husband and mother-in-law. She held press conferences, traveled to all parts of the country, gave lectures and radio broadcasts, and expressed her opinions in a newspaper column called, "My Day." She was the first First Lady to take action while her husband was in office.

She made many organizations to help the people. She actually cared and worked to help the people. She didn’t only try and help people in the United States she wanted to help everyone in the world. That’s why it resulted that she was actually one of the co founders of the United Nations. She spoke out for the black people, poor people, working women, migrant workers, and dissatisfied students. In 1935 she wrote her autobiography. Her column on the newspaper was what inspired her to write it. She had her own radio program where she expressed what she’ll be doing for the nation all the updates. The White House was never so busy until Eleanor arrived. So, many guests would go meet with her and Franklin. As a democrat Eleanor was a great example of what the First Lady should do to back up her husband. Even though she didn’t really want to be First Lady but she backed up her man with all his campaigns and she changed the whole nation.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ar32.html
http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=33

Marriage

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Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt married on March 17 of 1905. For about the first ten years of their marriage Eleanor was either giving birth or getting over giving birth. They lived in New York. Franklin went to school at Columbia University and studied law. She had Anna, James, and Franklin all in a four year time period. Franklin Jr. sadly didn’t make it past a couple of months. Her mother-in-law wasn’t much help at that time of grief. She basically added to the pain, she dominated all their lives. Then after from the time period of 1910-1916 Eleanor had Elliot, Franklin Jr., and John.

Their relationship was basically like a roller coaster. It had its ups n downs. Her mother-in-law caused a lot of their problems because she never really approved of their marriage. Eleanor suspected that he was cheating but never had any proof. In 1918, she found love letters between Franklin and Lucy Mercer, Eleanor’s social secretary. She as any woman would be was so furious. She threatened to divorce Franklin if he didn’t promise to end the affair and never see her again. They stayed together for the sake of their five children and his political career. A divorce would’ve looked really bad on his part. But after that incident their marriage wasn’t the same as before. She was more distant and didn’t feel the love. It was said that Franklin did keep up with his affair all the way till his death.

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_roosevelt_eleanor.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande01.html

Teenage years

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After the death of both her parents Eleanor went to live with her grandmother. Shortly after moving in with her, she sent Eleanor to boarding school in France. There Eleanor grew to love Europe. While growing up she didnt really have the glamorous life everyone would assume. She was really akward looking. She wasnt as beautigul as her mother. She was knobby kneed and buck toothed. She was always taller then all the other girls. And just like most girls in their teens hopeing to be like everyone else and not different. She faced those times almost every girl experiences when they feel as the ugliest girl alive. Her mother was so beautiful and she longed to have her good looks.

In 1902, at the age of 17 Eleanor returned to the United States. Shortly after her arrival she met a distant cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt which she became intrested in. They slowly got to know each other more and spent alot of time toghether and became engaged in 1903.They kept it on the low for a while. Franklin's mother wasn't really thrilled with them dating so they didn't announce their proposal until they married on St.Patrick's day two years later in a townhouse on Fifth Ave. The marriage of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt resulted in six children. They were Anna, Franklin Jr. (died in infancy), James, Elliott, Franklin Jr. and John.

http://willswift.com/eleanor_roosevelt.htm

http://www.teenink.com/Poetry/article.php?link=Past/2001/January/Books/Eleanor.xml

Early years of Eleanor

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Eleanor Roosevelt was born as Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. The date was October 11th of the year 1884 at 56 West 37th Street in our very own New York City. Her parents were Elliot Roosevelt and Anna Hall Roosevelt. Weird because later in life her husband had the same last name which we know later on in her life that they were related in some way. Eleanor preferred to be called by her middle name instead of Anna. She had two younger brothers Elliot Jr. and Hall. She also had a half brother by her father and one of the young servant girls: Elliot Roosevelt Mann. Eleanor had the privilege to be in the high society because her family was indeed very wealthy. Despite all the wealth her life wasn’t all of a fairy tale. By the age of six she had to care for her sick mother and younger brothers.

When Eleanor was eight she had the misfortune of losing her mother to diphtheria which is an upper respiratory tract illness characterized by sore throat and low fever. When that happened her father became very depressed. He began drinking and wouldn’t go home for days in count. Since her mother wasn’t around Eleanor became very attached to her father and wasn’t really happy with his depression and addiction. About two years later her father Elliot also died. He died of depression and alcholism. By the age of ten Eleanor was an orphan. Her grandmother Mary Ludlow Hall then became her and her brothers legal gaurdian.

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/erbiography.cfm