"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt
IMAGE FROM THE FDR Presidential Library & Museum Archive
The American website nationaltoday.com (which list national and international celebratory days) tell us that today, January 30th, marks the birthday of former American President Franklyn D. Roosevelt.
Justifiably, it lavishes praise on the former President, the only one to serve three full terms, dying midway his fourth consecutive term. He led the country through the difficult, long period of the Depression and the Second World War.
It mentions some of his Humanitarian credentials, such as the mass vaccination programmes against Polio, several social programmes, both as President and as Governor of the State of New York. He also had a pivotal role in forming the United Nations.
In regards to his private life, though, the site gets it quite wrong. It poses the question of whether the President had a lover, it affirms, "No, he remained faithful to his spouse."
THE ROOSEVELTS - A Façade
Really??!!! Ask Eleanor, she has something quite different to say about this topic. Perhaps they felt they couldn't talk about the President's affair without discussing the "love that dare not speak its name" , which had secretly entered The White House. The Roosevelts a façade at the White House.
Roosevelt said in his 1933 Inauguration speech, "we have nothing to fear except fear itself". However, it is Eleanor who has shown to be truly fearless. I will be talking about this remarkable woman next month again.
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