Covering the Gov. Alfred E. Smith presidential campaign in 1928, Lorena Hickok could not have imagined risking professional suicide for Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was supporting her husband’s political ally. It was bad enough for a reporter of Hick’s stature to be assigned the woman’s beat. Yet the more she had studiously avoided Mrs. Roosevelt as a subject, the more smitten she was by Eleanor. For the first time in two decades, a colleague found reason to warn Hick about getting too close to her sources.
The hardboiled reporter could admire the professionalized Eleanor as “an outstanding civic and welfare leader” who personally maintained Spartan standards of modesty and austerity. Yet it was the very stuff of women’s pages—ER’s $10 dresses and lunches at drugstore soda fountains—that caught at Hick. One day she noticed that Eleanor kept her long, thick hair contained within the fine black strands of an elasticized hairnet.
Within a month of FDR declaring for President in 1932, Eleanor was in full pursuit of romance. On the campaign train through the Southwest, she sprung Hick from the reporters’ pack, bringing her along to see Isabella Greenway. In Nebraska she teased Hick into following her into an eight-foot-high cornfield row and out the other end through a barbed-wire fence.
They talked through the night, Eleanor revealing to Hick Franklin’s admiring warnings and Tommy’s benediction . She told the story of her Ugly Duckling childhood, her mother’s death and her father’s disintegration, touching lightly on Grandmother Hall, her drunken uncles and screwball aunts. Hick asked if she might write “some of that” in her next article about “Mrs. Roosevelt.
At the Capitol’s East Front, Eleanor’s husband of twenty-seven years took the Presidential Oath of Office, then turned to face the crowd of thousands which had gathered on the Capitol Plaza. He allowed a single gleaming smile, then mirrored the serious faces of the people as he delivered his message. It was time, said President Franklin Roosevelt, to face conditions boldly and honestly. He affirmed his own stark commitment to “speak the truth, the whole truth.
Upon entering 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by the front door, Eleanor drew off her gloves, revealing the ring Hick had given her: a breath-catching sapphire encircled by diamonds.
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