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features his springwood estate, his presidential library next door and also the final resting places of fdr and first lady eleanor roosevelt. we visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. it really was not until my grandmother s funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. and something of a celebrity. and seeing, you know, the president, two ex-presidents, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. we never thought of her in that way. we never viewed my grandmother. she was only a grandmother to us. and that s all she ever wanted to be to us. i was born in january 3rd, 1942. my father was elliot. and elliot was the second oldest of the son ....
his presidential library next door and also the final resting places of fdr and first lady eleanor roosevelt. we visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. it really was not until my grandmother s funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. and something of a celebrity. and seeing, you know, the president, two ex-presidents, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. we never thought of her in that way. we never viewed my grandmother. she was only a grandmother to us. and that s all she ever wanted to be to us. i was born in january 3rd, 1942. my father was elliot. and elliot was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the child ....
places of fdr and first lady eleanor roosevelt. we visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. it really was not until my grandmother s funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. and something of a celebrity. and seeing, you know, the president, two ex-presidents, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. we never thought of her in that way. we never viewed my grandmother. she was only a grandmother to us. and that s all she ever wanted to be to us. i was born in january 3rd, 1942. my father was elliot. and elliot was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the children. so my dad kind of fell right in the middle and i think he ....
the estate as well. the roosevelts originally had a different estate. a little bit down the road from this property. and the house burnt to the ground in 1865. and then fdr father mr. james roosevelt purchased this property to be their new home in the hudson valley. fdr parents were james and sarah dell a more roosevelt. and mr. james roosevelt had a wife before sarah. her name was rebecca holland. and she passed away in 1876. and four years later in 1880, mr. james married miss sarah. he was 52 years old. and she was only 26. so she was half his age. and james and sarah only had the one child, franklin roosevelt. when mr. james roosevelt, his father bought this father in 1867, it was a 17 room farm house, about 110 acres of land, several out buildings which he paid the sum of $40,000 which today is price of expensive car but back in those days a nice amount of money. the house was endarged by fdr in 1915, because by then he had a growing family. and he had decided as e ....
first lady, president, whatever your title was, you came in as a friend. and coming into somebody s home as a friend is much different than walking into their place of business as a colleague. so going into the white house with fdr and talking about major world events would be much different than coming up to this very secluded porch where there were no bank of photographers waiting to take a picture of the handshake. it was a place he could be open with his guests. and showing him sitting in his wheelchair laid it all out there. he s there showing off the fact that i m not hiding anything from you. and i think his guests received that in such a way that they were willing to open up and not hide anything from him. and i think the way they used this place really facilitated some wonderful conversation. and they were able to really delve into some of the major issues and i think come up with some incredible solutions that may not have been possible at the white house or m ....