Eleanor Roosevelt Burns' dismissal of a possible sexual relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok as "tabloid" material. Pulitzer Prize winning historian John Loughey was similarly dismayed that the Newport affair was not included in the series. Roosevelt and Hickok's relationship is the subject of Susan Quinn's 2016 novel, "Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady". Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin
Eleanor Roosevelt Army. [President] Roosevelt sent his wife." Also in 1933 after she became First Lady, a rose was discovered and named after Roosevelt, with the name Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Rosa x hybrida "Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt"). It is a hybrid tea rose. However, though this is true, there is no evidence to support the story that Roosevelt later quipped, "I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall". In 1937 she began writing