1932: Franklin is governor of New York, yet his political ambition continues to grow.  Eleanor admits in her memoir: “Franklin did not tell me when he decided to run for the Presidency…” (Roosevelt, 158) Like with the previous political offices Franklin held, Eleanor did not express her disinterest in his desires, and showed willingness to sacrifice her wellbeing for his ambition (something we see many significant others continue to do to this day).  She would travel to Chica

As Eleanor attempted to settle into her prototypical role as a housewife and mother, Franklin had bold aspirations for his life direction.  He graduated from Harvard and briefly attended Columbia Law School, then went on to pass the New York bar and subsequently hired by a law firm in New York City; however his passion for serving the public enveloped him.  Franklin made the easy decision to pursue an enduring political career, which began close to home with a nomination for

Eleanor returned home from London and spent that summer at her maternal grandmother’s country home Tivoli; while enjoyable, she soon found herself preparing for her debut at cotillion. (cotillion: “a formal ball given especially for debutantes”; this was an event partaken by young women typically from upper class families)             Eleanor’s struggles with self-confidence were still evident at the many balls she attended as part of her “coming out”; she states about her ex

Eleanor with her father Elliott (the love of her life) Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born October 11, 1884 in New York, New York. ...

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Even as World War II came to an end with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Charles Lindbergh’s life pressed on as he continued to explore various interests and opportunities that came his way.  Shortly after the end of the war, Lindbergh became involved with a top-secret project at the University of Chicago identified with the acronym CHORE (Chicago Ordnance Research) that involved weapons development.  Simultaneously, Lindbergh was also working as a cons

Lindbergh delivering a speech at an America First Committee rally at Madison Square Garden (May 23, 1941) Charles Lindbergh’s return to the United States began as if he had never left… with, in his words, “…close to a hundred pressmen were on the ship and dock waiting for me.” (Lindbergh, 188)  Lindbergh traveled to Washington D.C. where he spent his first week back in the U.S. providing the Department of War intel on his observations of various aeronautical developments in

The Lindberghs began 1936 anew across the pond in England, as Lindbergh shares “…because we had been told that Englishmen respected rights of privacy, and that English newspapers had more respect for law than ours at home.” (Lindbergh, 145) Considering the family went through their own version of hell with the trial and conviction of Charles Jr.’s murderer and the publicity that resulted, it was necessary for the couple and their son Jon to seek as much privacy as needed to h

On March 1, 1932, The Lindberghs’ world was turned upside down when Charles Jr. was kidnapped from his room around 9 P.M. at their home outside Hopewell, New Jersey.  As Charles describes in A utobiography of Values : “I had been sitting in the parlor with my wife.  Outside, the wind blew and the night was black.  Our house was long, with two stories, enclosed by walls of whitewashed stone and gray slate roof… I went upstairs to the child’s nursery, opened the door, and immed

On May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh achieved what was believed to be an impossible feat: he flew across the Atlantic and proved that transoceanic crossings were possible.  He changed the face of travel forever!                After Lindbergh finally got a chance to sleep (at the U.S. Embassy), the non-stop adulation began with him engaging in meetings with various French celebrities and then-President Gaston Doumergue, who awarded him the Legion d’Honneur. (highest French order

In 1926, Lindbergh began preparations for taking on the challenge of flying nonstop from New York to Paris.                The first order of business was designing a plane; as he describes in Autobiography of Values : “I thought it was a mistake to build a multiengine plane… especially when the route lay across the ocean.  A single-engine plane would have greater range, and it seemed to me it would offer its pilot greater safety.” (Lindbergh, 70) Clearly Charles had a strate

Even after graduating from high school, his yearning to become a pilot had not faded.  In 1920, Charles enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, choosing to major in mechanical engineering.  He found out early on he may not have been cut out for academia as he was struggling to perform well in most of his classes, including math and chemistry; as a result, he was placed on academic probation by his class advisor.  Having come to the realization that he was unlikely t

Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902 in Detroit, Michigan, just one year before the Wright Brothers made their now-famous flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.  He was born in Detroit at his mother Evangeline’s request of having her great uncle Edwin, one of three doctors in her family, to assist in his birth.  Charles’ father, C.A. Lindbergh, a lawyer, was not present for his birth (typical for the period).             Lindbergh was raised on the family farm

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