Roosevelt, Eleanor

1. The wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Her humanitarian and diplomatic efforts were known and respected all over the world. She represented the United States in the General Assembly of the United Nations from 1949 to 1952.

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Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt praised Grapes of Wrath and called for congressional hearings into conditions at the migrant camps.

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One of my great predecessors and personal heroines was Eleanor Roosevelt.

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It took an unprecedented convention speech by the immensely popular Eleanor Roosevelt to stop the bitter tide running against him.

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Add Eleanor Roosevelt, Elvis Presley, and Annie Oakley and it's obvious this is a mélange of personal meaning and interest.

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John Avlon explains why Ernest Hemingway and Eleanor Roosevelt were included.

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She was also an admirer of Eleanor Roosevelt, but that is beside the point.

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