Mrs. Roosevelt, Breaker of Precedents
i is Presidential election year in the United States, but to the busiest woman in the country, Eleanor Roosevelt, it is just something to be taken in her stride-that long, purposeful stride of hers. Over there, they’ve given up trying to work out how their First Lady gets through the amazing amount of work she does in a day. Her critics-and she has many-complain that she has no business to be doing most of it, A President’s wife, they say, is in the drawing room of White House, and her work should be limited to giving and attending receptions. But Eleanor Roosevelt plays many parts, not the least of which is that of a breaker of precedent. In her first week at the White House she completely shattered the tradition that a President’s wife can have no views, no life, no activity of her own.-(Mrs. Vivienne Newson, "Some Memorable Women I Have Met," 2YA, October 19.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 72, 8 November 1940, Page 5
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