History: North American History: Elenor Roosevelt

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT  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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." - Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt journeyed to New York City a week after her husband's funeral in April 1945. There a cluster of reporters were waiting at the door of her Washington Square …

…for him during the war when he couldn't. It was said that she used the presidential plan more than her husband ever did and that she was extremely outspoken on foreign affairs. Even after Franklin's death, she continued to have a powerful voice in the Democratic Party, and continued to do so through out the rest of her life. She died happily at her home in New York City on November 7, 1962, at the age of 78.