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her decline and death, 339–40
    first collapse, she’s hospitalized, 331–33
    full of childhood stories, 321
    grandchildren special pleasure, 321–22
    her work for and advice to Kennedy, 324–27
    insists on going to Campobello, her stay there and return to Val-Kill, 333–34
    journalistic and literary work, 311–12
    knocked down by car, Anna urges she slow down, 312
    lack of pretense, no cause too small, 315
    lecturer at Brandeis, refuses special treatment, 310
    rehospitalized, wishes to die, 337–38
    relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy, 328–29
    returns home, confused by news of Cuban missile crisis, 338
    sense of history and Roosevelt role in it, 320
    senses death near, prepares for, 329–31
    at seventy-five, famous, successful, active, 309–10
    slowing down, aplastic anemia diagnosed, 329
    still active (spring, 1962), 331
    straitlaced about social behavior, 322–23
    television work, margarine commercial, 311
    in touch with Robert Kennedy on civil rights, 327
    trip to Europe (1962), 329–30
    Uncle David’s sallies before Soviet guests, 320–21
    use of atom bomb on Japan not a mistake (1959), 326n–27 n
    Val-Kill picnics, youth special concern, 314
    Val-Kill still home, prefers letters to phone, 313
    vision and compassion, the victim’s ally, 312
    Roosevelt, Eleanor, trip to Soviet Russia, meeting with Khrushchev, 271–76
    return to U.S., thoughts on Khrushchev, 276
    Roosevelt, Elliott, 3, 7, 13, 71, 132, 167, 176, 178, 185, 188, 208, 229, 257, 288, 311, 333, 336
    attacked for views in As He Saw It , Eleanor’s defense of, 78–79
    commissions portrait of Eleanor, 171
    Eleanor’s advice to stay out of politics, 174
    partnership with Eleanor at Val-Kill, 168–69
    personality, Eleanor’s special affection for, 170, 178
    as producer of Eleanor’s television and radio shows, 181–83
    Roosevelt, Faye Emerson, see Emerson, Faye
    Roosevelt, Franklin, III (grandson), 321, 322, 335
    Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr., 8, 20, 79, 132, 167, 170, 174, 175, 176, 202, 204, 205, 208, 288, 291, 299, 300, 302, 305, 315, 319, 324
    De Sapio occasions his 1954 defeat, Eleanor’s retaliation, 279–81
    “draft Eisenhower” movement and (1948), 139–41
    elected to Congress (1949), 173
    re-elected, 176
    Roosevelt, Franklin D., 12, 13–14, 15, 16, 18, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 52, 74, 75, 82, 103–4, 114, 133, 134, 143, 150, 167, 168, 169, 175, 177, 178, 188, 208–9, 210, 213, 214, 225, 239, 243, 246, 249, 258, 259, 260, 261, 272, 275, 319, 327, 345, 347
    death of, settling his estate, 1–9
    and Eleanor’s interest in UN, 19
    and Jewish refugee question, 99, 101–2, 103
    meeting with Joseph Kennedy, 293
    postwar Allied unity and, 78
    Roosevelt, Hall, 173, 333
    Roosevelt, Haven, 321
    Roosevelt, James, 3, 5, 7, 14, 79, 132, 167, 169, 205, 208, 284, 288, 300, 324, 332, 339 n
    criticizes Truman Doctrine, 135
    dressed down by Truman during 1948 campaign, 144
    prepares to run for California governorship, 173
    seeks Truman’s support, 174
    Truman doesn’t endorse, he’s defeated, 175
    wins primary, 174
    Roosevelt, Janet, 173
    Roosevelt, Joan, 337
    Roosevelt, John, 173, 208, 230, 233–34, 304, 314, 315, 319, 320, 321, 334
    Roosevelt, Minnewa, 223, 227, 229
    Roosevelt, Nina, 321–22, 329
    Roosevelt, Sally, 304
    Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 227
    Roosevelt, Theodore, 18, 151, 310
    Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr. (grandfather), 321
    Roosevelt, Tony, 188
    Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History , 184
    Roosevelt Home Club, 320
    Roosevelt I Knew, The, 44
    Roosevelt in Retrospect , 187
    Roosevelt Story, The , 169
    Roper, Elmo, 187
    Rosenberg, Anna, 167, 202, 257, 282, 293, 297, 305
    Rosenman, Dorothy (Mrs. Samuel), 246
    Rosenman, Samuel, 241, 269
    Rosenmans, the, 291
    Rosenthal, A. M., 220
    Rosenwald, Lessing J., 105, 115
    Ross, Irwin, 163
    Rowan, Carl, 150, 268
    Rusk, Dean, 59, 122, 189
    Russell & Company, 230
    Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer, 4, 6, 208
    Rutledge, Wiley, 1
    Sachar, Abram, 310, 344 n
    St. Laurent, Louis S., 166
    St. Lawrence Seaway project,