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"Mrs. Nesbitt is truly kind to all of us," commented Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt as she reviewed her ex-housekeeper's White House Diary (TIME, Aug. 2). "It is true she didn't always like all of our friends and some of the visitors seem to have been a real trial, but so far as my husband and myself and the children are concerned she was certainly a very charitable and generous friend . . . I always got on well with Mrs. Nesbitt. My husband became difficult about his food in the last few years . . . The greatest sacrifice which Mrs. Nesbitt...

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