Doris kearns goodwin eleanor roosevelt6/24/2023 ![]() she never married, and everybody in washington knew that she was really his other wife. she had started working for him when she was only 20 years old, goodwin: i think the person that i'm interested in for franklin is not simply lucy mercer-who everybody assumes is the central romantic figure in his life because she had an affair with him back in 1918, and it almost broke up eleanor's marriage-but there's another woman that i think had an even more central role to play in his life, and that was his secretary, missy lehand. > if you had to ask a question of either one of them about personal relationships that they had with other people, who would you be most interested in? > ms. that was the part that was new and fun for me. ![]() so, what i came upon was a sense that the second family quarters of the white house were really like a residential hotel during these years, and there's about seven people living there, all of whom are intimate friends of either franklin or eleanor's. and i came to an understanding that these two characters really both needed other people to meet the untended needs that were left over as a result of their troubled marriage. ![]() goodwin: well, i think what i wanted to do in this book was to understand not only franklin and eleanor's relationship-which has been looked at in many, many other cases-but to understand the whole extended family that surrounded them in the white house. ![]()
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