Welcome back, let's consider now our third Roosevelt, Eleanor. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11th, 1884. Her father was Elliot, Theodore Roosevelt's younger brother. And her mother was Anna Hall, a member of the distinguished Livingston family. Both her parents died when she was a child, and Eleanor spend most of her childhood with her grandmother. She received a very traditional education and at the age of 15, she was sent to Allenswood, a girl's school in England. She learned to speak French fluently, and gained the social skills and self-confidence that she employed once back in New York at age 18. In social service work and small scale political activities. Soon, however, as to contemporary etiquette prescribe. She gave her public activities for family concerns and her husband's political career, although she did volunteer for the American Red Cross when the United States entered World War I. After Franklin was stricken with polio in 1921, Eleanor increased her political activism to both help him maintain his interest and to assert her own personality and goals. In this period she pursued many of the interests that would characterize her entire life. Participating in the League of Women Voters, the Women's Trade Union league, and the women's division of the New York State Democratic Committee. When her husband won the presidency ER feared a new life of endless receptions and ceremonial duties. Instead, her unique qualities allowed her to both play the first lady role with impeccable style and know how, and revolutionize the world's public presence. She was the first first lady to hold her own female only press conferences. To criticize American private organizations and public agencies for their racial discrimination and to actively pursue her own political agenda focused on the advancement of women's, worker's, and civil rights. Throughout FDR's presidency Eleanor traveled extensively around the nation. Visiting relief projects, surveying working and living conditions, and reporting her observations to the president. She was called the president's eyes, ears, and legs, a source of first hand information for FDR. Eleanor involved the public in her exploits and adventures through her daily syndicated column, My Day, which she wrote continuously from 1935 until her death in 1962. During World War II she served as assistant director of the Civilian Defense Program from 1941 to 1942. And she visited Europe and the South Pacific to foster good will among the American allies. And to boost the morale of US servicemen overseas. In doing so, she gained widespread popularity at home and international prominence abroad. After FDR's death in April 1945, despite some initial doubts, she continued to be an active public figure. President Truman appointed her to represent the United States in the United Nations General Assembly, where she served as chair of the Human Rights Commission, and worked tirelessly to draft the Universal Declaration of Human rights. In her opinion, the U.N represented the best guarantee of world peace and stability. She thought the U.N mission to be so important that, as she put it in 1954, the mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations. She worked tirelessly to enhance multilateral diplomacy. To solve the European refugee crisis and to fight poverty and starvation, and above all, to improve global educational standards. At home, she worked very hard to keep the reforming spirit of FDR's New Deal alive. In particular, she grasped the potential of the mass media as a way to reach out and inform her fellow citizens. In great demand as a public speaker. She hosted her own radio and tv shows, and was an incredibly prolific writer with thousands of articles and dozens of books to her credit, including a popular multi-volume autobiography. Nobody was surprised when President Kennedy reappointed her to the United States delegation to the United Nations in 1961. Even though she was aged 77. Under the young democratic president, she also served as a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Peace Core. And chair of the president's commission on the status of women. Her unceasing lifelong commitment to human rights induced Harry Truman to refer to her as the First Lady of the world at her funeral in November 1962. There were few women in the history of the U.S. who had worked for and inspired others as much as Eleanor had.