I do appreciate this small bouquet of an innovation for its time, and to gain an understanding by direct experience of what it was that made Mrs.R so famous, and influential. At bottom, and at top i am supposing, graciousness. That this relic from an era now nearing its centennial seems a relic, is too bad. We do not live in a world that regards grace, nor recognizes it One point struck me to be not unrelated to the foregoing: in the (10:00) area, Mrs.R gets a leeeeetle partisan, describing how Democrats take in, digest, and advance notions for the nation's good. Speaking as a now ex-(D), the Party today could use to give her a listen. That ain't gonna happen.
It's to attribute it as a program that exists as hers. Eleanor Roosevelt like no other first lady had an active agency in political life, that not only outshadows every other first lady in the nation's history, but even outshadows that of some presidents.
''the job of everyone who comes into contact with me is to make life easy and pleasant for me. I ring a bell and somebody comes'' - if only the spoiled brats of today's Wall St and Washington royalty and nobility, lords, princesses, duchesses and dukes realised this dependency of their happiness upon the services of others..
