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The First Lady of World War II with Shannon McKenna Schmidt

The Preamble

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Eleanor Roosevelt and the Unconventional First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt came from a family where she felt like, if I'm not the first lady anymore, then that's fine. Her grandmother once said to her, a woman's place is not in the public eye. She actually wrote an article for a women's magazine called How to Take Criticism. So you may as well do what you want and what you believe in.

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