Eleanor Roosevelt

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

On March 4th 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt became America's First Lady, a role she transformed during the 12 years that her husband Franklin D Roosevelt was president. Louise Hidalgo has been talking to her granddaughter and namesake, Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves, who with her young brother lived for a while with her grandparents in the White House.

Photograph: Eleanor Roosevelt at a United Nations conference in New York in 1946. She was appointed as a representative to the UN following her husband's death in office in 1945. (Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)

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1:10.0	History as told by the people who were there.
1:12.4	Today we start our story in March 1933,
1:15.8	when a lady often described as the most admired woman in US history,
1:19.7	Eleanor Roosevelt became America's first lady. I've been talking to her granddaughter. Werner Roosevelt few years after Franklin D Roosevelt first became president.
1:33.4	Two hundred and fifty thousand people are in Washington for the inauguration.
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