Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" was a syndicated ... At four o'clock, I greeted the members of my press conference for the last time. I have always looked out at the Washington Monument from my ...

Roosevelt is elected president of the United States. March 6: Eleanor becomes the first wife of a president to hold all-female press conferences ... at the Southern Conference for Human Welfare ...

the first to issue a press release under her own name was Frances Cleveland; the first to openly support women’s suffrage was Nellie Taft … and so on. Yet, Eleanor Roosevelt did occupy a ...

We recognize the role of first lady as it exists today because of Eleanor Roosevelt. A compassionate ... affected by the Great Depression. She held press conferences for only women reporters ...

Elected officials are expected to represent the values and ideals of their country, and how they dress is part of that. Here, ...

Both were women. The joint appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” by Democratic doyenne Eleanor Roosevelt and Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) on Nov. 4, 1956, is widely regarded as the ...

In February 1947, a group consisting of Eleanor Roosevelt, Pen-Chun Chang and Charles Malik began drafting the International Bill of Human Rights. With assistance of the UN Secretariat ...

Eleanor Roosevelt ... In Washington, the Associated Press reported, President Kennedy announced plans to attend the funeral. Kennedy called Mrs. Roosevelt "both an inspiration and a friend ...

The incoming president's reaction to the central bank could serve as an early indicator of how extensively he plans to ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, Author, Elliott Roosevelt, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-15596-4 Published posthumously, the latest Eleanor Roosevelt mystery penned by her son finds ...

Eleanor previously worked as a business correspondent and news editor in regional news in the U.K. She completed her journalism training with the Press Association after earning a degree from the ...

Eleanor Beardsley is the Paris correspondent for National Public Radio where she covers all aspects of French society, politics, economics, culture and gastronomy. She is also a core part of NPR's ...