and in washington here she and mary mcleod bethune are visiting a residence for african-american women war workers. once again eleanor's making history by showing that she and the roosevelt administration really care in the plight of people who are at the margins of society. but she continues to play her official role as white house hostess too. here she is entertaining madam shack kai-shek in 1943. well, we all know the end of the story of eleanor as first lady. fdr dies in 1945 unexpectedly, and guess who's with him when he dies? lucy mercer, the old girlfriend. eleanor is appointed u.s. delegate to -- by the -- i'm sorry, is appointed u.s. delegate to the united nations by president truman, and she is instrumental in the creation of this document, one of the most important documents of the 20th century. the universal declaration of human rights. we would not have that document if it had not been for eleanor's genius in dealing with the communists and with the other political players at the united nations. so let me just conclude by saying i personally think and try to make the case

this mary mcleod bethune but roosevelt it's a lot of credit vil rights and a rights issues often only when enforced, but he didn't quite live up -- >> guest: no, he didn't, and eleanor did. i mean, eleanor publicly and privately did push the very aggressively civil rights issues and sometimes to the point where her husband kept saying that enough. i've heard enough. if i keep pushing in this direction i'm going to alienate southern states and they won't accept the rest of the new deal by the rest of my agenda. but privately, roosevelt was in this pattern of trusting his african-american staff very much. roosevelt was paralyzed, his legs were paralyzed from polio. he had been paralyzed when he was about 39-years-old irony because his infantile her paralysis and he never could get the use of his legs back. he was always afraid of five-year term of his life that he would be caught in a room and could in the state fire. and so when he was in the white house of course the enemy attacks and so on, so they launched a project which they called crawling exercises, the president in order to ska

that's what mary mcleod bethune. but rose what it's like and so he did sign executive rights issues, often on force, but just wasn't quite what he didn't quite live up to his outside era just the other day. she did push very aggressively on civil rights issues. sometimes to the point where her husband kept saying that's enough. i've heard enough. if i keep pushing in this direction i'm going to alienate won't accept the rest of the new deal like the rest of my agenda. but privately, roosevelt was in this pattern of trusting his african-american staff very much. roosevelt was paralyzed on his legs paralyzed from polio. he had been paralyzed when he got polio when he was about 39 years old. the irony was, it was an infantile paralysis, and he never could get his legs back. he was always afraid of fire struck his life he would be caught in the room and could not escape fire. and so when he was in the white house, they were all concerned about any attacks and so on, so they launched a project which they called crawling e

[laughter] that is mary mcleod bethune but roosevelt gets a lot of credit often only when forced but he wasn't quite -- she didn't quite live up to his outside paris. >> guest: and eleanor did. both publicly and privately did push very aggressively on civil rights issues and sometimes to the point her husband kept saying that's enough i heard enough. if i keep pushing in this direction i'm going to alienate in the southern states and they won't accept the rest of the new deal by the rest of my agenda. but privately, roosevelt was in this pattern of trusting his african-american staff very much. roosevelt was paralyzed on his legs were paralyzed from polio he had been paralyzed when he got pulley when he was about 39-years-old and an irony because his infantile paralysis, a young person's disease and he never could get the use of his legs back. she was always afraid of failure that he would be caught in a room and couldn't the state fire so when he was in the white house, concerned about any attacks and so on the launched a project they called crawling exercises. the president in orde

when mary mcleod bethune once visited the white house, one of the security guards referred to her as auntie. and she said which one of my sister's children are you? [laughter] that's what mary mcleod lot of credit for being very liberal, certainly he did sign executive orders that had forced. >> guest: right. >> host: but he didn't quite live up to his outside -- >> guest: no, he didn't. eleanor did. both publicly and privately she did push very aggressively on civil rights issues, sometimes to the point where her husband kept saying that's enough, you know? if i keep pushing in this direction, i'm going to alienate, again, the southern states, and they won't accept the rest of the new deal, the rest of my agenda. but privately, roosevelt was in this pattern of trusting his african-american staff very much. roosevelt was paralyzed, his legs were paralyzed from polio. he had been paralyzed, got polio when he was about 39 years old. an irony because it's a young person's disease, and he never could get the use of his legs back. he was always afraid of of fire, that he would be caught i