Cheers to the Moms: The Women Who Raised Churchill & FDR – Mo News Interview

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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**Mo News Premium For Members-Only Instagram, Private Podcast: (Click To Join)** Volumes have been written about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill. But what about the women who raised them? A new book tells the fascinating story of their mothers, Sara Delano Roosevelt and Jennie Churchill. Both natives of Brooklyn, NY, they would go onto take two very different paths and raise their famous sons in completely different ways. Mosheh speaks with Charlotte Grey, the author of “Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons,” about the matriarchs and their impact on the two men credited with defeating Hitler and saving democracy. We dive into the moms’ influence, as well as some of the more intriguing anecdotes, including Sara’s obsession with her son and how it impacted his marriage to Eleanor Roosevelt. — Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Website: www.mo.news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Daily Newsletter: https://www.mo.news/newsletter Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@monews Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Mo news podcast. I'm Mo Schwenu-Nu. Today we have a fascinating
0:09.0	historical conversation. It's a new perspective on World War II history. So many books have been
0:14.4	written about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The two key leaders who's a
0:19.3	lion's would ensure the free world would defeat Nazi Germany. Well, the historian Charlotte Gray
0:25.5	has a new book out that actually focuses on their moms, FDR's mom and Winston Churchill's mom.
0:31.7	Their names are Jenny Jerome Churchill and Sarah Delano Roosevelt and she tells their story in a
0:37.4	fascinating way that two women actually born in the same year just a few miles apart in New York
0:43.6	and they would go on to give birth to Winston Churchill and FDR and so I think you guys will find
0:50.6	fascinating. Their compelling characters in Charlotte Gray notes to me that 99% of the history
0:56.4	books are written about men and she wanted to focus on more of the women and so this is a unique
1:02.2	perspective here on how these two women raise their sons to eventually ensure that the world would
1:09.2	remain free. I think you'll find this conversation about passionate mothers powerful sons
1:14.4	fascinating and the compelling glimpse into the late 19th century early 20th century life in the US
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