Roosevelt, Jr. Anna was active as a writer and journalist, and she served as editor of the woman's page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for several years. In , at her father's request, Anna moved into the White House to serve as an assistant to the President and as White House hostess during her mother's frequent absences. Anna also accompanied her father to the Yalta Conference in January-February Anna devoted much of her later life to problems of education and to carrying on many of her mother's interests and philanthropies.
She was an active supporter of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. Anna died on December 1, at the age of After attending Groton School and Harvard College, James engaged in the insurance business and played an active role in his father's political career, serving as Massachusetts campaign manager in and becoming an unofficial aide in He served on the White House staff as a presidential assistant from , and then became a motion picture executive.
After the war, James returned to California where he revived his insurance career and became involved in Democratic politics. He was elected to six terms as a member of the U. House of Representatives from California. After he left the House in , he returned to California where he became a business consultant, author, and commentator. James died on August 13, at the age of Born on September 23, , Elliott Roosevelt was named after his maternal grandfather. Elliott attended Groton School like his father and older brother, James, but declined to go to college.
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University of Virginia Miller Center. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Family Life. Female reporters, who were by tradition excluded from press conferences held by her husband, found a welcome audience with the first lady—only women were invited to attend. If a news organization wanted to cover Eleanor, who was now increasingly creating her own headlines, they had to keep women on their payroll, no small comfort in the midst of the Great Depression. Franklin Roosevelt narrowly avoided disaster on his way to the Tehran Conferences.
Porter might be the unluckiest ship in U. Commissioned in , its first assignment was as escort for several other vessels, including the battleship USS Iowa, when they crossed the Atlantic that November. Who was on board the Iowa? The next day saw another accident. While performing a routine drill during which disarmed weapons were to be used , a fully operational depth charge fell off the ship and detonated, sending the rest of the convoy into a near panic, sure that Axis submarines were nearby.
The Porter was once again performing drills, this time using what were supposed to be fake torpedoes. However, the whole convoy was under strict orders to maintain radio silence, so the Porter instead sent light signals to try to warn the Iowa.
While many on-board the Iowa were terrified at the prospect of an attack, FDR took it all in stride, ordering his Secret Service agents to wheel him ship-side, so he could watch the events unfold. But when one of the men was assigned to hard labor for his role in torpedo disaster, FDR had the sentence reduced.
Amelia Earhart was supposed to teach Eleanor Roosevelt how to fly. The Roosevelts met famed aviator Amelia Earhart at a White House state dinner in April , and she and the first lady quickly hit it off. Near the end of the night, Amelia offered to take Eleanor on a private flight, that night if she wanted to.
Eleanor agreed, and the two women snuck away from the White House still in evening clothes , commandeered an aircraft and flew from Washington, D. Technically speaking, in the United States one cannot inherit political office from their parents.
But that doesn't mean there aren't dynastic families, who repeatedly win officethrough wealth, connections, and aptitude. Some of the most famous political families in the U. Updated February 15, Logan Chamberlain. More Inaugural Features!
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