THE PRESIDENCY: Wives

"The Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt were among those who came back with us and we found them very delightful compan ions."

So wrote Woodrow Wilson's widow recently in the Satevepost, describing the Wilsons' first return from the Peace Conference in February 1919. In next week's installment, Widow Wilson relates how, when she saw her husband being crucified on his Treaty of Versailles and Covenant of the League, she suggested that his doctor make him resign in favor of Vice President Marshall.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt, whose U. S. popularity is higher than her husband's...

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