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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. The only American president elected to more than two terms, he facilitated a durable coalition that realigned American politics for decades. FDR defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in November 1932, at the depths of the Great Depression. FDR's persistent optimism and activism contributed to a renewal of the national spirit. He worked closely with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in leading the Allies against Germany and Japan in World War II, but died just as victory was in sight.

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.

In the 1940s, Roosevelt was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

Active in politics for the rest of her life, Roosevelt chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's ground-breaking committee which helped start second-wave feminism, the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. In 1999, she was ranked in the top ten of Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.

Daisy Suckley (December 20, 1891 - June 29, 1991) was a close friend and confidant of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well as archivist at the first American presidential library. Generally called 'Daisy' by those who knew her, she was born December 20, 1891 at Wilderstein in the Hudson Valley, and died June 29, 1991 in Rhinebeck, New York, after living to nearly 100 years old. She was a neighbor and sixth cousin of President Roosevelt. She was one of the four women with Roosevelt in his house, the Little White House, in Warm Springs, Georgia, when he died of cerebral hemorrhage in 1945. The exact nature of their relationship is unknown, although there is considerable evidence that their relationship was at least intellectually, if not physically, intimate, and it became widely known on the discovery after her death of thousands of pages of notes, diary entries, and letters in a black suitcase under her bed. She gave Roosevelt his dog Fala, and wrote a children's book on the dog. One of the rare photographs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a wheelchair was taken by her.

During World War II, Daisy often stayed for long visits at the White House, keeping the President company on quiet evenings. The only two published photographs of him in his wheelchair were taken by Miss Suckley.[citation needed] Yet she seems to have been routinely dismissed, even by many historians, as the dowdy cousin who worked on the family papers.

Miss Suckley was not considered to be very beautiful, and she often referred to herself as "playing the part of the prim spinster," however, notably romantic overtones are found in many of the letters written to her by FDR. Though Roosevelt was known to have participated in affairs with several women during his marriage, there is little documentation of the nature of his relationship with Margaret Suckley, and Roosevelt’s apparent instructions to Miss Suckley to burn at least some of the letters he wrote to her have resulted in gaps.

"There is no reason why I should not tell you that I miss you very much — It was a week ago yesterday," Roosevelt wrote her after spending time with her on one occasion, during a retreat to his 'Top Cottage' on his New York estate near the Hudson River. "I have longed to have you with me," he wrote another time from a cruise to Panama.

Other letters clearly show Roosevelt ruminating about his personal and political experiences, including commentary that he wrote to her regarding the progress of World War II and meetings that he had during the war, such as with Churchill and Stalin at the Yalta Conference.

"He told me once," she wrote in her diary soon after his death, "that there was no one else with whom he could be so completely himself."

After Roosevelt died, his daughter, Anna, and a friend came upon a cache of Daisy’s letters, hidden in the box from his stamp collection that Roosevelt took everywhere with him. There is no indication that Anna read the letters or understood their significance, but she offered to let Daisy have them back, and Daisy accepted carefully. She supposed, she wrote to Anna, it had been "just easier" for him "to toss them into the stamp box rather than bother to tear them up & drop them into the waste-paper basket!"

As well as numerous newspaper articles, Suckley's relationship with Roosevelt has been the subject of a non-fiction book by Geoffrey Ward and a play, "Hyde Park-on-Hudson", by Richard Nelson. Nelson portrays their relationship as sexual, and a production was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2009.