This was not the case. She only said it to the women in their family. Sure. So id like to learn a little bit more today about how she took that work public and, first of all, how eleanors work really spurred the president ial commission and how she worked to make it a reality. Well, the film indicated, shall we say, confrontational relationship that Eleanor Roosevelt had with jack kennedy. And she really did not campaign for the president at all until october 1960 because she insisted that he change his civil rights stance and that he publicly discuss mccarthy, and so she and Adam Clayton Powell and Herbert Lehman had a big conference in new york at the baptist church. And they come up with about a dozen recommendations that they want the president to endorse before you know, to really say to the world, this once in for all, is where i stand on civil rights. And president kennedy against the advice of his advisers goes and meets with her, and she gives him the recommendations. And that
Gratitude from a son who would not be in Jewish communal life without the dedication and sacrifice of a matriarch who placed herself second to all her children’s needs.