Footprints In Your Heart, Eleanor Roosevelt’s wisdom poem

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Anna “Eleanor” Roosevelt from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division, ID cph.3c08091.

The White House Portrait of Mrs. Roosevelt painted by Douglas Chandor, 1949

Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd President of the United States) is often referred to as an iconic first lady, someone who changed the rules. She was active politically, advocated for social justice and human and civil rights, wrote and gave speeches, formed a White House press corp of women reporters and photographers and was the first Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (under John F. Kennedy). She is the gold standard for the first ladies who follow her.

Mrs. Roosevelt with the Spanish version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms.

One of the projects Mrs. Roosevelt was most proud of was the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which…

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