Resultado de búsqueda
12 de may. de 2009 · Persico’s provocative conclusions about their relationship are informed by a revealing range of sources, including never-before-published letters and documents from Lucy Rutherfurd’s estate that attest to the intensity of the affair, which lasted much longer than was previously acknowledged.FDR’s connection with Lucy also creates an opportunity for Persico to take a more penetrating look ...
Lucy. A president. A marriage. A love affair. On the eve of World War I, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fiercely ambitious and still untouched by polio, falls in love with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer. Eleanor stumbles on their letters and divorce is discussed, but honor and ambition win out.
Lucy Rutherfurd was with FDR when he died in Warm Springs, GA in 1945. At the time he collapsed, Roosevelt had been sitting for a portrait painting by the artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff, known as the famous Unfinished Portrait of FDR. Shoumatoff, who maintained close friendships with both Roosevelt and Mercer, ...
Barbara Rutherfud Knowles was the daughter of Winthrop C. Rutherfurd( 1862-1944) and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd (1891-1948).The family was from New York, New York and had homes in both Allamuchy, New Jersey and Aiken, South Carolina. She was a graduate of Aiken Day School and the Fermata School. Her father, Winthrop...
Lucy Page Mercer was born on April 26, 1891, in Washington, D.C., to Carroll Mercer (1857–1917), a member of Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" cavalry military unit in the campaigns in Cuba, on the south s* of the island near Santiago during the brief Spanish–American War in 1898, and Minna Leigh (Minnie) Tunis (1863–1947), an ...
2 de ago. de 2010 · The youthful, handsome countenance of Franklin Roosevelt had been etched into the mind of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd from their first meeting, when he was the newly minted assistant secretary of the U ...
Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd was one of many women in FDR's life. He enjoyed and trusted women. His mother gave him unimpeachable love and support. Throughout his presidency, ...
