No Ordinary Time
Doris Kearns Goodwin
87 “Both Harry Hopkins . . .”: interview with Elizabeth Wickendon.
87 HH’s leadership of WPA: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), pp. 67–71, 75–76.
87 “people don’t eat . . .”: ibid., p. 52.
87 “If I deserve . . .”: HH documentary, FDRL.
87 “is one of the few . . .”: MD, Aug. 22, 1938.
87 If Eleanor loved: interview with Eleanor Wotkyns.
88 “Around the White House . . .”: Lillian Rogers Parks, The Roosevelts: A Family in Turmoil (1981), pp. 74–75.
88 “In the days before . . .”: interview with Eliot Janeway.
88 “It was strange . . .”: intervew with Elliott Roosevelt.
88 “his New Deal . . .”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 11.
88 “The war news . . .”: HH to ER, Aug. 31, 1939, HH Papers, FDRL.
88 “a total friendship”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.
88 HH’s bedroom: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, pp. 203–4.
89 “ordinary fooling . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.
89 “Harry and Missy . . .”: Tommy to AB, June 17, 1940, box 75, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
89 “It had begun to cause . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.
89 “One day . . .”: Tommy to AB, April 1940, box 75, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
90 “could not live . . .”: Kenneth S. Davis, Invincible Summer (1974), pp. 107–8.
90 “He looked at me quizzically . . .”: TIR, p. 76.
90 “My zest in life . . .”: Lash, Love, Eleanor, p. 159.
90 “The times of depression . . .”: Lesley Hazelton, The Right to Feel Bad (1984), p. 123.
91 “Within a few months . . .”: Davis, Invincible Summer, p. 110.
91 Elliott Roosevelt: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, pp. 1–13; David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback (1981), pp. 76–79; Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979).
91 “Yesterday during my Latin . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 7.
91 “Teedee is a much quicker . . .”: McCullough, Mornings, p. 145.
91 courted Anna Hall: ibid., pp. 248–50. On Anna Roosevelt, see Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, pp. 14–20.
91 Robert Browning: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 23.
91 “dressed in some blue gray . . .”: Geoffrey C. Ward, Before the Trumpet (1986), p. 265.
92 “one of the most . . .”: TIMS, p. 1.
92 “grateful to be allowed . . .”: ibid., p. 13.
92 “dominated my life . . .”: ibid., p. 6.
92 “With my father . . .”: ibid.
92 When he was drinking: Ward, Trumpet, p. 275; Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 429–30.
92 Knickerbocker Club episode: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, pp. 51–52.
92 “stood first in his heart”: TIMS, p. 9.
92 “a shy solemn child . . .”: ibid., pp. 5–6.
92 “as a child senses . . .”: ibid., p. 11.
93 “I acquired a strange . . .”: ibid., p. 16.
93 “I would sit . . .”: ibid., p. 13.
93 “a curious barrier”: ibid., p. 17.
93 “Little Ellie . . .”: ibid., pp. 17–18.
93 “a blue eyed . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 33.
93 “A child stood . . .”: ibid., p. 729.
93 “My darling little . . .”: ibid., p. 42.
94 “I was always longing . . .”: TIMS, p. 32.
94 “I can remember standing . . .”: ibid., p. 19.
94 “Death meant . . .”: ibid.
94 “he held out his arms . . .”: TIMS, pp. 20–21.
94 “subconsciously I must have . . .”: ibid., pp. 29–30.
95 “We must remember . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 49.
95 “My aunts told me . . .”: TIMS, p. 34.
95 “It was her father . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 3.
95 “We do not have to . . .”; “The things always to remember . . .”: American Heritage, Nov. 1984, p. 18.
95 used to hide books: Alfred Steinberg, Mrs. R (1958), p. 32.
95 boarding school in London: TIMS, pp. 54–88.
96 “a new life”: ibid., p. 65.
96 “started me . . .”: Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Ferris, Your Teens and Mine (1961), p. 44.
96 “happiest . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 87.
96 “always wanted to discuss . . .”: Michael Teague, Mrs. L: Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1981), p. 155.
96 Rivington Street settlement: TIMS, p. 108; Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, pp. 98–99.
96 “tremendously interested . . .”: TIMS, p. 27.
96 “My God . . .”: Eleanor Roosevelt and Ferris, Your Teens and Mine, p. 181.
97 “Though I only wrote . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 110.
97 “It is impossible . . .”: ibid., p. 109.
97 “When he told me . . .”: Eleanor Roosevelt and Ferris, Your Teens, pp. 181–82.
97 “I was thinking . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 110.
97 Eleanor burned them: ibid., p. 101.
97 “I am the happiest man . . .”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR: His Personal Letters, vol. I (1947), p. 518.
97 “For ten years . . .”: TIMS, p. 163.
97 “He had always been . . .”: Geoffrey C. Ward, A First-Class Temperament (1989), p. 12.
98 “The polio was very . . .”: John R. Boettiger, Jr., A Love in Shadow (1978), p. 90.
98 “were joined . . .”: Rexford G. Tugwell, The Democratic Roosevelt (1957), p. 529.
98 “I hated to see you go . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 345.
99 ER brought together representatives: David S. Wyman, Paper Walls (1985), p. 18.
99 June 20 meeting: NYT, June 21, 1940, pp. 1, 3.
99 “You know, darling . . .”: Lash Diary, June 25, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
99 “It was kind . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 635.
99 “I think men are worse . . .”: ER to AB, June 26, 1940, Asbell, Mother and Daughter, p. 119.
99 “finding homes . . .”: MD, July 13, 1940.
100 “The children are not . . .”: NYT, July 7, 1940, p. 5.
100 “an enormous psychosis . . .”: Breckinridge Long, The War Diaries of Breckinridge Long (1966), p. 108.
100 On Long: Henry L. Feingold, The Politics of Rescue (1970), pp. 131–35.
101 “upon a showing . . .”: Wyman, Paper Walls, pp. 119–21.
101 “I think your mother . . .”: Tommy to AB, July 12, 1940, box 75, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
101 “The English cannot spare . . .”: Harold L. Ickes, The Secret Diaries of Harold L. Ickes, vol. III, The Lowering Clouds, 1939–1941 (1954), p. 239.
101 “The very surest way . . .”: Long, War Diaries, p. 119.
101 Estimates show: Wyman, Paper Walls, pp. 169, 211.
102 “The long pathetic . . .”: ibid., p. 39.
102 the St. Louis: Arthur Morse, While Six Million Died (1983), pp. 270–88.
102 “The Jew party . . .”: Ward, Temperament, p. 252.
102 “In the dim distant . . .”: ibid., p. 254.
102 Roper polls: Daniel Yankelovich, “German Behavior, American Attitudes,” talk given in May 1988 at a conference at Harvard on the Holocaust and the Media, sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, the Harvard Divinity School, the Nieman Foundation, and WCVB-TV, Boston.
102 brought to ER’s attention: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 636.
103 president had been hearing tales: Wyman, Paper Walls, pp. 188–91; Feingold, Politics of Rescue, pp. 128–31.
103 “the treacherous use . . .”: NYT, May 17, 1940, p. 10.
103 “today’s threat . . .”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 (1941), p. 238.
103 “He was somewhat . . .”: Lash Diary, June 25, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
104 “the list could be . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Frankl
in, p. 636.
104 “she had this sense . . .”: interview with Trude Lash.
104 PAC: Wyman, Paper Walls, pp. 138–48; ER to Welles, Oct. 1, 1940, OF 3186, FDRL.
104 “I know it is due . . .”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 636.
104 “We all know . . .”: J. Buttinger to ER, Nov. 15, 1940, OF 3816, FDRL.
CHAPTER FIVE: “No Ordinary Time”
106 “Franklin always smiled . . .”: TIR, p. 213.
106 “really meant to develop . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.
107 “Perhaps it wasn’t . . .”: ibid.
107 “This is a . . .” U.S. News, July 12, 1940, p. 24.
107 “No President . . .”: ibid.
107 “George, I am chained . . .”: Ted Morgan, FDR: A Biography (1985), p. 520.
107 FDR had signed contract: ibid., p. 527.
107 “The role of elder . . .”: TIR, p. 212.
108 Top Cottage: NYT Magazine, Aug. 24, 1941, p. 231; Geoffrey C. Ward, A First-Class Temperament (1989), p. 741.
108 “Every time he came . . .”: interview with Margaret Suckley.
108 “If times were normal . . .”: U.S. News, July 12, 1940, p. 24.
108 “a speeding car . . .”: ibid.
108 “I think my husband . . .”: ER interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.
108 “Now, whether . . .”: ibid.
108 “ . . . When you are in the center . . .”: TIR, p. 214.
109 “It was a position . . .”: Lash Diary, July 18, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
109 “one never knows . . .”: Lash Diary, July 15, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
109 “the President might have . . .”: Lash Diary, Feb. 5, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
109 “They all in their serene . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, Love, Eleanor (1982), p. 74.
109 “Will the President seek . . .”: NYT, Nov. 4, 1939, p. 18.
109 “When you have been . . .”: NYT, Nov. 6, 1939, p. 11.
109 “would not look forward . . .”: ER to Isabella Greenway, Aug. 20, 1940, ER Papers, FDRL.
109 “there was no end . . .”: Lash Diary, Feb. 3, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
109 9,211 tea guests: Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin (1971), p. 613.
109 “take on a job . . .”: Lash Diary, July 17, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
110 “At the present moment . . .”: ER to Isabella Greenway, Aug. 20, 1940, ER Papers, FDRL.
110 Meeting with Farley: James A. Farley, Jim Farley’s Story: The Roosevelt Years (1948), pp. 246–52, unless otherwise indicated.
112 “Mrs. Roosevelt, what is the President . . .”: Roland Redmond, OH, FDRL.
112 Huey Long story: NYT, Sept. 8, 1941, p. 10.
112 FDR’s study at Hyde Park: NYT Magazine, Aug. 24, 1941, p. 23.
112 “Everything right within reach”: Collier’s, Sept. 14, 1946, p. 96.
113 Hopkins to Chicago: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), pp. 176–77.
114 “There was a great deal . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.
114 “as deserted as a church . . .”: Farley, Jim Farley’s Story, p. 260.
114 “ . . . dead cats and overripe tomatoes . . .”: Marquis Childs, I Write from Washington (1942), p. 194.
114 “There was bitterness . . .”: Edward J. Flynn, You’re the Boss (1962), p. 156.
114 “If Harry Hopkins . . .”: Newsweek, July 22, 1940, p. 15.
114 “He threw one leg . . .”: Farley, Jim Farley’s Story, p. 263.
114 “Be that as it may . . .”: ibid.
115 “One would never . . .”: Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (1952), p. 208.
115 “Top Cottage was . . .”: interview with Egbert Curtis.
116 “There were days . . .”: Bernard Asbell, The FDR Memoirs (1973), p. 241.
116 “I tried fishing . . .”: TIMS, pp. 345–46.
116 Missy clearly the “wife”: Asbell, FDR Memoirs, p. 249.
116 Missy and FDR to Warm Springs: ibid., p. 237.
116 “Warm Springs was not much . . .”: interview with Egbert Curtis.
116 “We didn’t like . . .”: Theo Lippman, Jr., The Squire of Warm Springs (1977), p. 91.
116 “I can still remember . . .”: interview with Egbert Curtis.
117 “So ended . . .”: Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park (1973), p. 230.
117 “heart action . . .”: Asbell, FDR Memoirs, p. 252.
117 “a little crack-up”; “a nervous breakdown”: ibid.
117 “I had a most enjoyable . . .”: Bernard LeHand to FDR, July 10, 1927, box 21, Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.
117 “Except for a few intervals . . .”: interview with Egbert Curtis.
118 “Don’t you dare . . .”: Ward, Temperament, p. 792.
118 “He was in there . . .”: Asbell, FDR Memoirs, p. 253.
118 “My mother-in-law thought . . .”: TIMS, p. 336.
118 “I hated the arguments . . .”: James Roosevelt, My Parents: A Differing View (1976), p. 78.
118 “the big issue”: AH interview, Bernard Asbell. Transcript given to author by Professor Asbell.
118 “Father sympathized . . .”: James Roosevelt, My Parents, p. 78.
119 “Marguerite LeHand . . .”: Newsweek, Aug. 12, 1933, p. 15.
119 “If she thought . . .”: Rosenman, OH, Columbia University.
119 “We loved Missy . . .”: Lillian Rogers Parks, The Roosevelts: A Family in Turmoil (1981), p. 177.
119 “She always did it . . .”: interview with Margaret Suckley.
119 “Without making a point . . .”: interview with Barbara Curtis.
120 “Missy could be . . .”: Parks, Family in Turmoil, p. 184.
120 “Missy was an operator . . .”: interview with Eliot Janeway.
120 “She was one of the few . . .”: Rosenman, OH, Columbia University.
120 “By this time the bleachers . . .”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 113.
120 “For some reason . . .”: interview with Curtis Roosevelt.
120 “Missy alleviated . . .”: interview with Elliott Roosevelt.
120 “This is where Missy . . .”: Asbell, FDR Memoirs, p. 255.
120 “Dearest ER . . .”: MLH to ER, n.d., box 21, Roosevelt Papers Donated by the Children, FDRL.
120 ER resolutely refused: Eleanor Roosevelt, My Days (1938), p. 220.
121 “it would have been . . .”: James Roosevelt, My Parents, p. 104.
121 “Everyone in the closely knit . . .”: Elliott Roosevelt and Brough, Untold Story, p. 196.
121 “I suppose father had a romance . . .”: James Roosevelt, My Parents, p. 104.
121 “From FDR to MAL . . .”: Asbell, FDR Memoirs, p. 262.
121 “I think by 1940 . . .”: interview with Egbert Curtis.
122 “the most delightful . . .”: MD, July 18, 1940.
122 “as close a relationship . . .”: AH, review of Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt, A Friend’s Memoir, box 36, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
122 “It was a confusing time . . .”: interview with Lewis Feuer.
122 “It is funny how quickly . . .”: Lash, Love, Eleanor, p. 323.
123 “Joe was pretty vulnerable . . .”: interview with Lewis Feuer.
123 “Perhaps . . . my miseries . . .”: AH, review of Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Friend’s Memoir, box 36, Halsted Papers, FDRL.
123 “There wasn’t a lampshade . . .”: tour guide, Val-Kill, Hyde Park, New York.
123 Eleanor led Joe outside: Lash Diary, July 15, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
123 talked till midnight: Lash Diary, July 16, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
124 “She was entranced . . .”: interview with Lewis Feuer.
124 “I’d like you to feel . . .”: Lash, Love, Eleanor, p. 315.
124 “She personifies . . .”: Lash Diary, March 24, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
124 “At times there is . . .”: L
ash Diary, April 22, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
124 “Nonsense . . .”: Lash Diary, July 17, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
124 “strangely subdued”: NYT, July 16, 1940, p. 1.
125 “The President could have had . . .”: quoted in Francis Biddle, In Brief Authority (1962), p. 142.
125 “This convention is bleeding . . .”: Herbert S. Parmet and Marie B. Hecht, Never Again (1968), p. 185.
125 “acting out his curious . . .”: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1956), p. 426.
125 “I have never seen . . .”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 210.
125 ER listening to FDR’s statement: Lash Diary, July 16, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
125 Barkley oratory: Chicago Daily Tribune, July 17, 1940, p. 2.
125 “And now, my friends . . .”: NYT, July 17, 1940, p. 1.
126 delegates’ response to statement: Burns, The Lion and the Fox, pp. 427–28; Farley, Jim Farley’s Story, pp. 280–81.
126 “leather-lunged . . .”: Burns, The Lion and the Fox, p. 428.
126 Massachusetts banner seized: Parmet and Hecht, Never Again, p. 186.
126 demonstration raged: NYT, July 17, 1940, p. 3; Chicago Daily Tribune, July 17, 1940, p. 3.
126 “even obvious things . . .”: Lash Diary, July 16, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
126 “The President . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.
127 “Absolutely no . . .”: ibid.
127 “How would it be . . .”: Collier’s, Sept. 7, 1946, p. 25.
127 “Call her up . . .”: Perkins, OH, Columbia University.
127 “Things look black here . . .”: TIR, p. 214.
127 “comforted if she thought . . .”: Lash Diary, July 16, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
127 “ . . . extremely dangerous . . .”: Tommy to LH, July 25, 1940, LH Papers, FDRL.
127 “For someone like me . . .”: Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Friend’s Memoir (1964), p. 129.
127 “ . . . ‘petticoat government’ . . .”: Lash Diary, July 17, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
127 “Well, would you like . . .”: ER interview, Graff Papers, FDRL.
127 “Harry Hopkins has been . . .”: TIR, pp. 214–15.
128 “overcome with emotion”: Lash Diary, July 17, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
128 “Thanks, Jim . . .”: Farley, Jim Farley’s Story, p. 283.
128 “Never had the delegates . . .”: WP, July 18, 1940, p. 1.
128 ER sang along: Lash Diary, July 17, 1940, Lash Papers, FDRL.
128 “felt as though it were . . .”: TIR, p. 215.
