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Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

FromWitness History


Eleanor Roosevelt

FromWitness History

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Mar 3, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On March 4th 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt became America's First Lady, a role she transformed during the 12 years that her husband Franklin D Roosevelt was president. Louise Hidalgo has been talking to her granddaughter and namesake, Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves, who with her young brother lived for a while with her grandparents in the White House.Photograph: Eleanor Roosevelt at a United Nations conference in New York in 1946. She was appointed as a representative to the UN following her husband's death in office in 1945. (Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)
Released:
Mar 3, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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