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  1. Eleanor Roosevelt Biography. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”. ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by ...

  2. President Harry Truman had appointed Eleanor Roosevelt to the United States delegation to the United Nations in December 1945. Soon after her return the following February from London, where the General Assembly first convened, she received a call from UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie, telling her that he had appointed her to the nuclear commission charged with creating the formal human rights ...

  3. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt I have come this evening to talk with you on one of the greatest issues of our time—that is the preservation of human freedom. I have chosen to discuss it here in France, at the Sorbonne, because here in this soil the roots of human freedom have long ago struck deep and here they have been richly nourished.

  4. Eleanor Roosevelt. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 − November 7, 1962) was an American diplomat and political activist. She was the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 as the wife of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  5. Eleanor Roosevelt relied heavily on close friendships with female and male confidents. Lorena Hickock, the political reporter with whom she fell in love during Franklin’s presidential campaign, was a key influence on her journalistic and political development.

  6. Eleanor Roosevelt, 1950. Eleanor Roosevelt, (born Oct. 11, 1884, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 7, 1962, New York City), U.S. first lady and diplomat. The niece of Theodore Roosevelt, she married her distant cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1905. She raised their five children and became active in politics after her husband’s polio attack ...

  7. Eleanor Roosevelt. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York City. She was the oldest child of Elliot Roosevelt and Anna Hall. She lost both parents by the age of ten. Following the death of her mother, she was raised by her maternal grandmother, Mary Hall, and later attended a private London finishing school called ...

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