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21
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Philip Vaughn (“Bennett”), Nov. 11, 1935.

22
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sept. 2, 1933.

23
. Interview with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.

24
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 10.

25
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Miss Toynton, Jan. 7, 1939.

26
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 8, 1937.

27
. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 218.

28
.
Ibid.,
pp. 291, 269, 264.

29
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Josephus Daniels, Oct. 5, 1937.

30
. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

31
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Sept. 6, 8, 11, and 12, 1938.

32
.
Washington Times,
Dec. 19, 1938.

33
.
New York Times,
Jan. 6, 1939.

34
.
Springfield News and Leader,
Dec. 18, 1938.

35
.
New York Daily News,
Dec. 21, 1938.

36
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Col. Patterson, Dec. 27, 1938.

37
. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 37.

38
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” April 6, 1938.

39
.
Ibid.,
Nov. 8, 1938; E. Roosevelt,
TIR
, p. 11.

43. THE DIVIDED WHITE HOUSE

1
. Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast, July 6, 1937.

2
. Emma Bugbee, in the
New York Herald Tribune,
March 2, 1937.

3
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Helen Weiss, Jan. 20, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Jane Barrett, Nov. 23, 1938.

4
. Letter from William Laas to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 23, 1938; Eleanor Roosevelt, in the
Democratic Digest
,
1937.

5
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Marion Dickerman, Jan. 13, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, Jan. 10, 1939.

6
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Agnes Leach, Jan. 27, 1937; E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
cited (Ch. 16), p. 155.

7
. Helen Robinson, Diaries, cited (Ch. 16), Jan. 31, 1938.

8
. J. Roosevelt and Shalett,
Affectionately, F.D.R.,
cited (Ch. 18), p. 237; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Roosevelt, July 30, 1959.

9
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Ralph and Anna (owners of a beauty parlor), Oct. 28, 1938.

10
. Letter from Steve Early to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 25, 1937.

11
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mr. G——, May 7, 1936.

12
.
Ibid.,
May 16, 1936.

13
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Sept. 5, 1937.

14
. Lash Diaries, Jan. 31, 1942.

15
. Williams,
A Southern Rebel,
cited (Ch. 40) p. 94; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Aug. 22, 1938.

16
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, Dec. 9, 1937.

17
. Harry Hopkins, memorandum, Jan. 19, 1945.

18
. Robert E. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History New York, 1948), p. 171.

19
. Lash Diaries, Feb. 5, 1940.

20
. Sherwood, p. 173.

21
. Talk with Malvina Thompson Scheider at Campobello, June 28, 1941.

22
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 168; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to May Craig, June 10, 1938; Ickes,
Secret Diary,
cited (Ch. 24), III, p. 371.

23
. Interview with Samuel I. Rosenman; E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
pp. 4–8, 167–68.

24
. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., in conversation with the author, May 30, 1963.

25
. Information provided by Mrs. Winslow Carlton, who worked for Harry Hopkins; Blum,
Years of Urgency,
cited (Ch. 40), pp. 41–42; Sherwood, p. 285; interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

26
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 173.

27
. Interviews with Esther Lape and Trude Lash.

28
. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 277.

29
. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

30
. Lash Diaries, Aug. 5, 1940.

31
. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

32
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, June 9, 1940.

33
. Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted; statement by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., as recorded in Lash Diaries, June 4, 1941.

34
. Interview with Samuel I. Rosenman.

35
. Fulton Oursler,
Behold the Dreamer
(New York, 1964), pp. 424–25.

36
.
Ibid.,
p. 435; Furman,
Washington By-Line,
cited (Ch. 35), pp. 271–72.

37
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Fulton Oursler, Jan. 14, 1938.

38
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to “Doc” Cropley, Oct. 14, 1937; interview with Alice Longworth; J. Roosevelt and Shalett, p. 294.

39
. Associated Press, Nov. 14, 1938; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Nov. 14, 1938.

40
. Lash Diaries, March 20, 1941, and Jan. 1, 1942; Oursler, pp. 424–25.

41
. J. Roosevelt and Shalett, pp. 315, 319.

42
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Rita Halle Kleeman, May 29, 1935.

44. A GATHERING STORM

1
. Letter from Guildford N. Crawford to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 9, 1933.

2
. Letter from C. E. Smith to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 31, 1933; Clarence Pickett, quoted by Holly Cowan, “Arthurdale,” cited (Ch. 37); Pickett,
For More than Bread,
cited (Ch. 37), p. 49; Alexander, OHP.

3
. Letter from C.F. Klinefelter (of FERA) to Malvina Thompson Scheider, Nov. 6, 1934; letter from Aubrey Williams to state relief administrators and chief state school officers, Nov. 2, 1934.

4
. Williams,
A Southern Rebel,
cited (Ch. 40); letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, Nov. 2, 1934.

5
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, Oct. 10, 1934; Rackham Holt,
Mary McLeod Bethune
(New York, 1964), p. 35.

6
. Letter from M.J. Chisum to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 29, 1934, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Feb. 24, 1934; Alexander, OHP.

7
. Letter from Claude Swanson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 6, 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to C.A. Franklin, Dec. 10, 1935.

8
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jane Hoey, Jan. 17, 1934.

9
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, May 2, 1934.

10
. Walter White,
A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White
(New York, 1948), pp. 179–80.

11
. Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 7, 1934;
ibid.,
May 29, 1934; letter from Walter White to Edward Costigan, June 8, 1934; letter from Edward Costigan to Sen. Robinson, June 11, 1934.

12
. Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 8, 1934;
ibid.
, Nov. 20, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, Nov. 23, 1934.

13
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, Jan. 23, 1935.

14
.
New York Times,
Feb. 12, 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, Feb., 1935.

15
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, May 8, 1935.

16
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Steve Early, Aug. 8, 1935.

17
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
cited (Ch. 16), p. 164.

18
. Letter from Steve Early to Malvina Thompson Scheider, Sept. 11, 1935.

19
. Letter from Barry Bingham to Marvin McIntyre, Aug. 29, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barry Bingham, Sept. 4, 1934.

20
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Molly Dewson, Dec. 30, 1935; letter from Felix Frankfurter to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 30, 1936.

21
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Miss Conrad, Sept. 7, 1938.

22
. Alexander, OHP; Sidney Baldwin,
Poverty and Politics: The Rise and Decline of the Farm Security Administration
(North Carolina, 1968), p. 332.

23
. Alexander, OHP.

24
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), May 13, 1936.

25
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John Flyner, Dec. 17, 1935.

26
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lucy Stewart, Feb. 21, 1939; on Eleanor Roosevelt's reaction to
Gone with the Wind,
see “My Day,” Aug. 20, 1936; Eleanor Roosevelt's exchange with Esther Cary on the use of the word “darky,” April 13, 1937.

27
. Poppy Cannon,
A Gentle Knight
(New York, 1956), p. 9.

28
. Samuel S. Battle OHP; letter from Mary McLeod Bethune to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 16, 1940; interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

29
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Pauli Murray, Dec. 19, 1938.

30
. Letter from Harper's to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 10, 1938, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, March 4, 1938; letter from Richard Wright to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 22, 1938, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Aug. 29, 1938.

31
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Lydia Wischan, March 1, 1938.

32
.
New York Times,
April 22, 1938.

33
Marian Anderson, speech at the Memorial Day exercises in the Hyde Park rose garden, May 30, 1939.

34
. Clark Foreman, “A Decade Hope,”
Phylon,
Vol. XII, No. 2, 1951; Proceedings of the NYA National conference of Negro Youth, Jan. 12, 1939.

35
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Feb. 28, 1939.

36
. White, p. 182; letter from Corinne Alsop to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 27, 1939.

37
. Interview with Oscar Chapman; White, p. 182.

38
. Ickes,
Secret Diary,
cited (Ch. 24), II, p. 615.

39
. Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 12, 1939.

40
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, April 12, 1939; letters from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 14 and 17, 1939.

41
. Ickes, II pp. 615–16.

42
. Alexander, OHP, p. 332.

43
. Memorandum, no date (probably 1942), President's Personal File 2.

44
. Mary McLeod Bethune's memorandum, July 12, 1940; directive from the war Dept. to Gen. Watson, July 15, 1940.

45
. Letter from Henry Stimson to Franklin. Roosevelt, Aug. 20, 1940.

46
. Letter from James Nabrit, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 17, 1940.

47
. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 24, 1940.

48
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, undated.

49
. Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 3, 1940.

50
. Henry Stimson, Diary, Sept 27, 1940, Yale University Library.

51
. White, p. 187; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Viola Ilma, Oct. 26, 1940.

52
. Letter from Crystal Bird Fauset to Elinor Morgenthau, Oct. 15, 1940; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Oscar Ewing, Oct. 25, 1940.

53
. Alexander, OHP.

54
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Wender, Nov. 13, 1940.

55
. Leuchtenburg,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal,
cited (Ch. 35), p. 322;
Crisis,
XLVII, 1940.

56
. Roy Wilkins, OHP.

57
. Eleanor Roosevelt, unpublished foreword to Pearl S. Buck's letter to the
New York Times,
Nov. 15, 1941, which was to be published as a pamphlet, a project that was dropped after Pearl Harbor.

58
. Stimson, Diary, Jan. 24, 1941.

59
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt's secretary to Sidney Hillman, May 5, 1941.

60
. Letter from Aubrey Williams to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 29, 1941; letter from Sidney Hillman to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 23, 1941; White House luncheon on May 29, 1941.

61
. The luncheon is described by Alexander, OHP.

62
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to A. Philip Randolph, June 10, 1941.

63
. Letter from Wayne Coy to Steve Early, June 21, 1931; letter from Aubrey Williams to Joseph P. Lash, March 1, 1964.

64
. White, p. 190.

65
. Letter from Gen. Watson to Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 14, 1941.

66
. Letter from A. Philip Randolph to Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 16, 1941.

67
. Interview with Anna Rosenberg (Mrs. Paul Hoffman).

68
. Telegrams from Aubrey Williams to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 20 and 24, 1941.

69
. Letter from Aubrey Williams to Joseph P. Lash, March 1, 1964; telegram from Aubrey Williams to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 25, 1941; Lash Diaries, June 23 and 26, 1941; Franklin
D. Roosevelt, memorandum to Rudolph Forster, in Official File; telegram from A. Philip Randolph to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 24, 1941, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, June 26, 1941.

70
. Letter from Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 22, 1941.

71
. Lash Diaries, Aug. 1, 1941.

45. THE YOUTH MOVEMENT

1
.
New York Times,
May 7, 1934.

2
.
Ibid.

3
. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins, March 24, 1934, and Oct. 5, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Bostwick, Nov. 7, 1933.

4
.
New York Times,
Nov. 25, 1933.

5
. Letter from Henry Goddard Leach to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 10, 1934, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Jan. 22, 1934.