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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day": Entertaining
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An interview with Allida M. Black - Director and Editor, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers; Research Professor of History & International Affairs, The George Washington University - Eleanor Roosevelt "My Day" columns.
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