Eleanor Roosevelt a picnic at Val-Kill for delinquent boys, her granddaughter Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves assisted her. She was close to her grandmother throughout her life. Seagraves concentrated her career as an educator and librarian on keeping alive many of the causes Roosevelt began and supported. In 1924, she campaigned for Democrat Alfred E. Smith in his successful re-election bid as governor of New York State against the Republican nominee and her first cousin Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Theodore never forgave Roosevelt. Her aunt, Anna "Bamie" Roosevelt, publicly broke with her after the election. She wrote of her niece to her son, "I just
Eleanor Roosevelt Louis Howe. When Elliott published this book in 1973, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. led the family's denunciation of him; the book was fiercely repudiated by all Elliot's siblings. Another of the siblings, James, published "My Parents, a Differing View" (with Bill Libby, 1976), which was written in part as a response to Elliot's book. A sequel to "An Untold Story" with James Brough, published in 1975 and titled "A Rendezvous With Destiny", carried the Roosevelt saga to the end of World War II. "Mother R.: Eleanor Roosevelt's Untold Story", also with Brough, was published in 1977. "Eleanor Roosevelt, with Love: