I know she still loved him why didnt you do it . But for him i would want to understand why he could not him share himself more fully with anyone the most charming and thoughtful personality but underneath there was such reserve in him and i want to understand why he couldnt give himself more to the people who loved him. And to understand not only franklin and eleanor but in many cases to understand the whole extended family that surrounded them in the white house and that these two characters really needed other people to meet those needs left over at the end of their troubled marriage so the second family quarters of the white house was like a hotel and there was about seven People Living there all intimate friends that was new and fun for me. Cspan if you had ask a question about personal relationships that theyve had with other people, who would you be most interested in . Frankly it would be franklin. Not just because he had an affair with her and almost broke up eleanors marriage