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  1. www.washingtonpost.com › history › 2024/06/27The first televised U.S. presidential debate was between two ...

    1 day ago · The joint appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” by Democratic doyenne Eleanor Roosevelt and Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) on Nov. 4, 1956, is widely regarded as the first televised ...

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  3. wondery.com › 5279-first-ladies-eleanor-rooseveltAmerican History Tellers: S71 E3: First Ladies | Eleanor ...

    3 days ago · In 1905, Eleanor Roosevelt married her distant cousin Franklin, beginning a remarkable and complicated union. During her husband’s years as President, from 1933 to 1945, Eleanor became the longest-serving First Lady and she transformed the role, becoming the first presidential spouse to hold regular press conferences and host a weekly radio show.

  4. www.storytel.com › in › booksThe Roosevelts: The History of the Family that Produced Two ...

    3 days ago · If Dolley Madison was instrumental in molding the role of First Lady in the 19th century, credit can be given to Eleanor Roosevelt for revolutionizing the political nature of the role in the 20th and 21st centuries and making it possible for presidents like Bill Clinton to enlist their wives to handle political duties.

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  6. www.britannica.com › topic › United-NationsUnited Nations - Human Rights, Global Peace, International Law

    3 days ago · Consequently, the Commission on Human Rights, originally chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, was created in 1946 to develop conventions on a wide range of issues, including an international bill of rights, civil liberties, the status of women

  7. yonkerstimes.com › eleanor-roosevelts-val-kill-andEleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kill and LGBTQ+: A History

    5 days ago · During Eleanor Roosevelt’s lifetime, most LGBTQ+ people lived their lives quietly or in secret, and history has often obscured details about sexuality and gender expression in its accounts of famous LGBTQ+ lives. But at Eleanor’s home at Val-Kill, she surrounded herself with influential women that today we recognize as lesbian.

  8. www.jfklibrary.org › asset-viewer › archivesInterview with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on the Status of Women ...

    1 day ago · Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady and Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.

  9. untappedcities.com › 2020/04/30 › 81-years-ago-fdr83 Years Ago, FDR Opened the 1939 World’s Fair in Queens

    4 days ago · Roosevelt’s speech was one of the first by a President of the United States to be televised, even though a small percentage of New Yorkers had televisions in 1939. Many people were skeptical of...