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SAT作文素材:Eleanor Roosevelt

　　That same year Roosevelt met her fathers fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was overwhelmed when the 20-year-old dashing Harvard University student demonstrated affection for her. Following a White House reception and dinner with her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, on New Years Day, 1903, Franklins courtship of Eleanor began. She later brought Franklin along on her rounds of the squalid tenements, a walking tour that profoundly moved the theretofore sheltered young man.

　　Following the Presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 4, 1933, Eleanor became First Lady of the United States. Having seen the strictly circumscribed role and traditional protocol of her aunt, Edith Roosevelt, during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt , Roosevelt set out on a different course. With her husbands strong support, despite criticism of them both, she continued with the active business and speaking agenda she had begun before becoming First Lady, in an era when few women had careers. She was the first to hold weekly press conferences and started writing a widely syndicated newspaper column, My Day at the urging of her literary agent, George T. Bye.

　　Roosevelt maintained a heavy travel schedule over her 12 years in the White House, frequently making personal appearances at labor meetings to assure Depression-era workers that the White House was mindful of their plight. In one widely-circulated cartoon of the time from The New Yorker magazine lampooning the peripatetic First Lady, an astonished coal miner, peering down a dark tunnel, says to a co-worker For gosh sakes, here comes Mrs. Roosevelt!