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Eleanor Roosevelt: Un General
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Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her UN post at the age of 68. She began to travel extensively, visiting Japan, India, Israel, and the Soviet Union. She kept a relentless schedule of conferences, lectures, and committee meetings.
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Eleanor Roosevelt felt bad about her children's unsuccessful private lives. Sometimes, during arguments with his adult son, she would comment that she "would be better off dead" and competing with them and overshadowing them.
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This has been quoted without citation as a statement of Eleanor Roosevelt. It is usually attributed to Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, but though Rickover quoted this, he did not claim to be the author of it; in "The World of the Uneducated" in The Saturday Evening Post (28 November 1959), he prefaces it with "As the unknown sage puts it..."
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The public had been led to believe that Eleanor was a lonely, depressed and unhappy woman. Wiesen Cook discovered that the first lady had several friendships, including one with State Trooper Earl Miller and with the celebrated pioneering Associated Press reporter Lorena “Hick” Hickock.
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The Russians seem to have met their match in Mrs. Roosevelt. The proceedings sometimes turn into a long vitriolic attack on the U.S. when she is not present. These attacks... generally denigrate into flurries in the face of her calm and undisturbed but often pointed replies.
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