ROOSEVELT STILL FAMOUS NAME

Press, Volume C, Issue 29511, 12 May 1961, Page 2

ROOSEVELT STILL FAMOUS NAME

President’s Son Is U.S. Diplomat

(By SUSAN VAUGHAN]

In London the other day I met a woman with a very famous name—Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt, jun„ wife of the third son of the great American President, and once tipped as a possible first lady of America. This. I am now told, is unlikely to happen. For F.DR.’s son has no wish for high political office. He is content with running his successful law practice and his car retail firm. Roosevelt Motors.

But the great initials F.D.R. are not entirely lost to the American cause.

Erarfklin D. Roosevelt, Jun., campaigned vigorously for Mr Kennedy’s election and is now a part-time American diplomat. His next assignment is to act as the President’s personal representative at the Argentina independence anniversary celebrations on July 9. Right Role His wifu> will go along to nelp out with the diplomatic niceties.

This is a role which suits Mrs Suzanne Roosevelt. At 38 she looks the typical American woman slim, blonde, animated. She has two daughters. Nancy, aged nine, and Laura, aged 18 months.

“1 have an English nursemaid,” she told me, “bu’ most of the time I look after them myself. English nannies always try to run vour life.”

She lives part of the time in Washington, part of the time at the Roosevelt's 600acre farm about 70 miles from New York. And that famous name? “Sometimes I wish it was Jones,” she said. “People goggle so when they hear it. as when I credit something in a store, for example.”