Years After The White House
President Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945 after suffering a cerebral hemorrage at Warm Springs, Georgia. Eleanor Roosevelt later learned that Lucy Rutherfurd had been with FDR when he died. Her biographer, Joseph P. Lash, called it a "bitter discovery" and wrote that Roosevelt alluded to this in her memoir of the White House years, This I Remember:
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration ... He might have been happier with a wife who was completely uncritical. That I was never able to be, and he had to find it in some other people. Nevertheless, I think I sometimes acted as a spur, even though the spurring was not always wanted or welcome.Read more about this topic: Eleanor Roosevelt
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—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
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Straight as a die, one of the best,
A brick, a trump, a proper sport,
Head and shoulders above the rest;
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Had he not been here below?
Here’s to the whitest man I know
Though white is not my favourite colour.”
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I came to my mother’s house in Gloucester,
Massachusetts. And this is how I came
to catch at her; and this is how I lost her.
I cannot forgive your suicide, my mother said.
And she never could.”
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