Among the few reminiscences told in this column of the life of Eleanor Roosevelt we were moved the most by the brief remembrance that appears the second page – a bitter-sweet story about young Eleanor and her mother’s vision of her as a hopelessly plain-looking girl.
Read a 1951 profile of a future First Lady: the young Nancy Reagan.
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