A First Class Temperament by Geoffrey C. Ward

Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8041-7336-0
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2014-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Sources: Jonathan Daniels, Washington Quadrille, page 145; Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, page 226; New York Review of Books, April 15, 1982.

34. “Eleanor could be hard,” her close friend Marion Dickerman remembered. “… I know she tried to forgive but hers was a not a forgiving nature, really.”

In later years, Eleanor would encourage other people close to her (including her own daughter) who were trapped in unhappy marriages and in love with other people to end them. Sources: Kenneth S. Davis, Invincible Summer, page 93; Bernard Asbell, ed., Mother & Daughter: The Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt.

35. This work was never finished; the letters did not appear in print until Elliott published them in his collection of his father’s letters in 1948.

36. In 1921, Groton School planned a permanent monument, listing the names of all graduates who had served in the armed forces. Franklin insisted that his name belonged with the rest: “Though I did not wear a uniform, I believe that my name should go in the first division of those who were ‘in the service,’ especially as I saw service on the other side, was missed by torpedoes and shell, and had actual command over ‘materiel’ navy matters in Europe while I was there.” Source: Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship, page 337.

37. Four years earlier, in the summer of 1914, Daniels and his wife had visited Springwood. Sara had reported then having been “incensed” to hear from the rector of St. James that a relative had said to him, “Isn’t it dreadful Franklin is compelled to associate with that terrible man, Daniels?”

“What do you mean?” the rector said. “Secretary Daniels is a man of the highest character and Franklin admires him very much.”

“But you do not know about him and his habits,” the lady answered. “I have just returned from Washington and was told by truthful people that the Secretary has affairs with all the Navy ladies.”

The Daniels’s and the Roosevelts alike had laughed then at the absurdity of scandal touching anyone in their comfortable circle. Source: Josephus Daniels, Editor in Politics, pages 83–84.

38. Just before sailing, Franklin gratefully took delivery of four cases of “Old Reserve” whiskey at just $1.90 a bottle, courtesy of his old friend John I. McIlhenny, now president of the U.S. Civil Service. It seemed clear that Congress was going to pass the Prohibition Amendment and send it on to the states, “but 47 East 65th Street,” Franklin wrote to McIlhenny, “is for the time being at least on the ‘wet’ list!” Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, FDRL.

39. He had gently turned away supporters who had urged him to run for governor the previous autumn, but he had never given up hope of returning to the White House. “I have only one fight left in me,” he had told his sister, Corinne Robinson, then, “and I think I should reserve my strength in case I am needed in 1920.”

Even some old enemies supported his candidacy.

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