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32 Inspirational Moments Eleanor Roosevelt Gave the World

Eleanor Roosevelt - Franklin D. Roosevelt

8. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

FDR in a wheelchair, with Fala and Ruthie Bie, the daughter of caretakers at his Hyde Park estate. Photo taken by his cousin Margaret Suckley in February 1941. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library/ Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain.

FDR went on to be elected governor of New York City in 1928 and then president in 1932. Of their partnership, Eleanor said, “Franklin and I had a desire to see improvement for people. I knew about social conditions perhaps more than he did, but he knew more about government and how you could use government to improve certain things, and I think we began to come to a certain understanding of teamwork.”

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