Online: Eleanor Roosevelt , with Mark Albertson

Eleanor Roosevelt was born in 1884 when people were still traveling by horse and buggy, yet when she died in 1962, she had born witness to the Cuban Missile Crisis– stupendous changes in 78 years, in which she played no small part.  She changed the accepted view of being First Lady and turned it into an office, she was the first First Lady to address a presidential convention, 1940; She helped deliver the black constituency from the Republican to the Democratic Party.  In one of her greatest contributions, she -authored the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  She raised the political stature of women in the United States and throughout the world.  Or, in the words of Harry Truman, "She was not only the First Lady of America, but of the world."