Veterans march to the White House as the "Bonus Army"; Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president of the United States. March 6: Eleanor becomes the first wife of a president to hold all-female ...

In her long tenure as First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt was known as a woman of the people — so much so that she was responsible for serving the worst food in White House ...

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady of American politics, died last night in her Manhattan apartment at the age of 78. Mrs. Roosevelt, who presided over the White House for 12 years as the wife ...

By the time Eleanor Roosevelt got to the White House, she and Hick are very close, intimate friends. And the first year in the White House, from 1932, the period of the campaign through the first ...

We recognize the role of first lady as it exists today because of Eleanor Roosevelt ... big publishers wanted to feature news from the White House, they would need to employ women at their ...

Until April 12, 1945, when FDR had no need of meals anymore. Harry Truman became president upon Roosevelt’s sudden death and ...

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) When former President Joe Biden took the White House four years ago, he added busts of labor leader Cesar Chavez and former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, along with a front ...