History: North American History: Elenor Roosevelt

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself. "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt journeyed to New York City a week after her husband's funeral in April 1945. There a cluster of reporters were waiting at the door of her Washington Square apartment. "The story is over," she told them all simply, assuming that her words and opinions would no longer be of any interest once her husband was…