Alex Prud'homme, "Dinner with the President"
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Franklin Roosevelt and the White House
The relationship between Eleanor and FDR was fraught. They had such different views of food. Some historians have concluded that Eleanor used Mrs. Nesbitt as a weapon of domestic revenge. She would serve things like liver and beans five or six days in a row, oatmeal two weeks in a row for breakfast every day.
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