Eleanor Herman
speaker
363 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Eleanor Herman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think he was just doing this hoax to sell his novel.
Now, if anyone found this material, that should be a nonfiction work, which would sell millions of copies.
So I think that it's just a hoax.
Yeah, they were roommates and good friends.
I just, I don't see it as being a...
a gay relationship, especially, you know, and the rumors didn't really come out until this man said he found the diary that he never showed anybody.
No, and you know, I don't blame him to tell you the truth.
I mean, that wasn't a situation like with Harding or with JFK, where they were just sexually depraved.
FDR, you know, he married, he was a wealthy socialite in New England and New York, and he married Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a distant cousin of his, because, you know, she was just very intelligent and very serious and not like the flighty debutantes.
But soon after the wedding...
they realized they were just very poorly suited to one another.
She hated it.
He liked feminine, frilly women.
With each year, she seemed to be getting a bit more masculine in her appearance and tastes.
He had a great sense of humor.
She had absolutely no sense of humor.
And so over time, he fell in love with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, and they had an affair.
And what happened was Eleanor found out, and said, I'm going to divorce you.
And he was very happy to divorce Eleanor, despite all of the children they had by that time.
But his mother wanted him to become president and said,
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