No, not her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... With Hick by her side, Eleanor learned how to navigate the press. Her popular newspaper column “My Day” grew out of the diary ...

In the new biography “Hick,” author Sarah Miller explores the deeply intimate relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and trailblazing journalist Lorena Hickok.

Lorena Hickok, a former Associated Press political reporter and onetime lover and lifelong friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, in a 1941 portrait. Lorena Hickok, a former Associated Press political ...

5. Eleanor Roosevelt organized press conferences exclusively for female reporters. Before FDR was first elected president in 1933, female journalists had usually been excluded from media events at ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, who holds the distinction of longest ... She also broke precedent to hold press conferences, travel to all parts of the country, give lectures and radio broadcasts, and express ...

“As long as the press and public didn’t notice anything ... Quinn writes that “Eleanor Roosevelt wrote or called [Gurewitsch] every single day. She kept his photograph on her bedside table ...

Eleanor Roosevelt's groundbreaking role as First Lady ... Eleanor established a precedent at the White House by calling weekly press conferences with women journalists. Although she initially ...

the first to issue a press release under her own name was Frances Cleveland; the first to openly support women’s suffrage was Nellie Taft … and so on. Yet, Eleanor Roosevelt did occupy a ...

Related: The Best Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes 2021 has also seen the ... the new First Lady held her first White House press conference for women reporters only. This was the first of 378 such ...

"Growing Up Roosevelt: A Granddaughter's Memoir of Eleanor Roosevelt" (SUNY Press) gives an intimate picture of life at Val-Kill as well as Nina's wide-ranging experiences traveling as a teenager ...