Wednesday, June 3, 2009

"Eleanor Roosevelt And Franklin Roosevelt"

A friend send me this picture of the Roosevelt's as newlyweds, I think. If you look close you will see that Mr. Roosevelt is knitting. So different from today.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Biography from Answers.com: "'All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.'"

7 comments:

  1. No man alive today would have a wedding portrait taken with HIM knitting! lol Well, I take that back; in some states now one of the guys in the wedding picture may be knitting!

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  2. Gday Ann, My brother learnt to knit at school many years ago. but im sure he has now forgotten how to hold a knitting needle.
    and im sure he wouldnt get his photo taken now even if he was pretending to knit..

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  3. wow, he is! I know men knit but it just seems strange to see it in such an old photo.

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  4. Men did a lot of different things back then, it was not considered being a sissy. He was a great President, I can still hear him on the radio when we declared war on Japan, it scared me.

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  5. What a find. Well done... Enjoyed much.

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  6. He was very handsome when young.
    Patsy

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