Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have chan….

Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know how that UN operation works….

I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies by de….

You know, you can't always criticize without somebody being at the end of the stick. And she perhaps did not always grant credit to her opponents for….

She was obviously useful at the UN because she had a public persona before she ever got there. She was well known. She was a spokeswoman for many imp….

And if something came along that didn't sound so good, it perhaps didn't always get out there as it should have. But given the fact that she [Eleanor….

I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I rather ….

Well, I didn't read My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt very carefully. I was away during a lot of that, in the war and so on. She was not all that good a wr….

These people looked Japanese, were originally Japanese, were numerous. We had no way of knowing to what extent they had been infiltrated. To their gr….

One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the housing projects that the….

They seemed like a team. And I think it is fair to say that Roosevelt was the consummate politician and that Eleanor was the socially conscious activ….

This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum, something like a dollar a wo….

I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help in this. As a Repub….

And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organ….

I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially. And it's to her ….

Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japa….

And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justic….

People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of….

I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved….

One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to ….

And he [Franklin Roosevelt] got the votes of every southern white voting state in the country and wouldn't have been elected president once, let alon….