![]() ![]() Theodore Roosevelt writing at his desk, circa 1905 (image/ New York Times) This weekend: the 99th TRA Conference that she and so many others had conducted during the war. Roosevelt gave an interview at the Upper East Side house to expand on, and even defend from some doubters, the work of the Y.M.C.A. Roosevelt was again settled in to her and Ted’s home on East 74th Street. Her husband was still in France with the First Infantry Division. He had spent almost all of the past two months in the hospital.Įight days after her arrival Mrs. Eleanor’s father-in-law, former president Theodore Roosevelt, had been failing for some time and was quite infirm by this time. Quentin had been killed that past July, and the other boys gravely wounded at different times during the war with physical and emotional injuries from which they would never entirely recover. It was a difficult time for the Roosevelt family. Vincent Astor, a noticeably gaunt Scottish soprano Mary Garden, and Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt, Ted Roosevelt’s wife. ![]() On Decemthe Lorraine arrived in New York Harbor carrying Mrs. In December 1918, weeks after the Armistice, Americans were arriving back in the United States, often on such massive transport ships as the Leviathan carrying as many as 9,000 doughboys. On Christmas Eve 1918 she was back in New York City and talking to the media of the work she and others did with the Y.M.C.A. Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt, Ted Roosevelt’s wife, seen here in center holding knitting, as she was in France during the Great War. ![]()
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