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influenced by the preaching of Frank D. Ashburn, Peabody of Groton (New York, 1944), 181.
he would cite Peabody The New York Times, January 21, 1945.
The first time Churchill was introduced CCTBOM, 43.
As they stood together Ibid., 44.
”brief and unpropitious” Ibid., 43.
Four years later Ibid., 48.
would telephone Clementine Colville, Inner Circle, 16.
”Her judgment, given after” Ibid., 33.
”When her nerves were stretched” Ibid., 34.
A child of a broken home CCTBOM, 10.
”She had a most sensitive conscience” Ibid., 8. My details of the marriage are drawn from CCTBOM, WAC, and author interview with Lady Soames.
a worrier WAC, xviii.
”It is a great fault in me” Ibid.
Churchill's reply was full Ibid., 11.
”I have been able to think” Ibid., 13.
One of Roosevelt's most disturbing memories EROH, Session 10, 5. Other fires marred Roosevelt's childhood. The worst: A favorite aunt burned to death, and he watched the Groton stables razed. See Ward, Before the Trumpet, 117119.
”I was stupid last night” WAC, 69.
designing his siren suits CCTBOM, 402.
”fell romantically in love” Ibid., 351. The details of the Philip interlude are drawn from CCTBOM.
Clementine quoted a French saying Ibid.
”The Prime Minister does not 'dominate' ” Diary of Dinner at 10 Downing Street, July 24, 1941, CEP.
Clementine, Mary wrote, ”was not” WAC, xiv.
”Such discussions” Ibid.
”Papa once said to the President” Author interview with Lady Soames.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 320.
Eleanor's mother called her ”Granny” EROH, Session 3, 1.
On November 22, 1903 Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 107.
”with your help” Ibid.
”Why me?” Ibid.
Sara was stunned Ibid., 109.
”the matriarch of the family” Anna Roosevelt Halsted, COH, 34.
”Mother had not” Ibid., 4.
Before midnight, Eleanor excused Joseph Alsop, FDR: A Centenary Remembrance (New York, 1982), 67.
”like 'dark velvet' ” Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 221. The Lucy story is a familiar one in the Roosevelt annals. My version of its early days is based on Joseph Lash's Eleanor and Franklin, a sensitive but not sentimental portrait of the affair and its impact on Eleanor.
”She knew how to please” Ibid.
The truth emerged Ibid., 226.
”The bottom dropped out” Ibid., 220.
”Eleanor gave him a choice” Ibid., 226.
”There was a marked tendency” Author interview with John Kenneth Galbraith.
”I was going up the staircase” Author interview with Patrick Kinna.
”She shook everyone's hand” Author interview with Carol R. Lubin.
Eleanor must never discover Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 700.
Churchill seems never to have carried on There is another view of this. William Manchester cites ”confidential information” in writing that Churchill ”has committed but one act of infidelity, at Golfe-Juan, on the Mediterranean, with a divorced, t.i.tled Englishwoman whose seductive skills and s.e.xual experience far exceeded his.” See Manchester, The Last Lion: Alone, 15. To my mind, as noted in the text, the most interesting issue is not s.e.x but secrecy.
On the Churchills' fortieth anniversary WAC, 549.
Gallipoli and polio changed their lives Joseph Lash is interesting on this point, writing that the Dardenelles and its fallout for Churchill ”began to teach him the lesson of biding his time, of curbing his ego, lessons that Roosevelt learned when polio brought him low.” See Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 60.
Feeling he should not Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, 328. I am grateful to Sir Martin Gilbert for this point.
Clementine tried to rea.s.sure him WAC, 163.
A portrait of Churchill painted by Sir William Orpen Author viewing of the portrait courtesy of-and in the company of-Winston S. Churchill.
”He is convinced his political career” Author interview with Winston S. Churchill.
worked with Bernard Baruch Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, 379.
”He took us on many weekends” Anna Roosevelt Halsted, COH, 33.