he also eleanor roosevelt. his wife, eleanor was, a political intellectual partner. know she had her own expansive role as first lady. but i think that she was an important adviser who was also hearing these ideas. would go, as she called herself, the eyes and ears of the new deal. she would go out to civilian conservation corps sites. works. progress. works. projects. administration sites in order to see how people were experi in seeing these government programs and are they working and what things weren't working needed to be changed. she pushed franklin roosevelt, things like civil rights making. that was part of his agenda to the extent that she could. so there were this whole kind of panoply of advisers him that he made pretty sustained use of throughout his presidency. most of the pieces of legislation that we've been talking about our economic nature. you mentioned civil rights. anything in the first 100 days when it came to civil rights? not in the first hundred days. and civil rights would not be a core component of fdr. his administration. it was something

we're also reminded that here in the home that eleanor and franklin roosevelt shared for five years, we're reminded that both the president and the first lady visited the island of puerto rico within year of the president's beginning. eleanor, as usual going first as her husband's eyes and ears to report on the economic devastation gripping the island in the midst a depression that we customarily think of as a mainland phenomenon, it was more than a mainland phenomenon. and by the way, fdr, his visit in 1934 was commemorate, aided in puerto rico by a statue showing him in his wheelchair. only the third statue in the world that offers such a realistic view of the president and certainly worth remembering and acknowledging here in house where he recovered from polio in 1921 and where he learned to use the wheelchair. yes, he had to learn in that armless wheelchair that was created so that he could fit into the elevator that is still here. and you'll see. take a look when you're at the reception, at the tiny elevator that he maneuvered, that armless wheelchair into the style that used f

he also eleanor roosevelt. his wife, eleanor was, a political intellectual partner. know she had her own expansive role as first lady. but i think that she was an important adviser who was also hearing these ideas. would go, as she called herself, the eyes and ears of the new deal. she would go out to civilian conservation corps sites. works. progress. works. projects. administration sites in order to see how people were experi in seeing these government programs and are they working and what things weren't working needed to be changed. she pushed franklin roosevelt, things like civil rights making. that was part of his agenda to the extent that she could. so there were this whole kind of panoply of advisers him that he made pretty sustained use of throughout his presidency. most of the pieces of legislation that we've been talking about our economic nature. you mentioned civil rights. anything in the first 100 days when it came to civil rights? not in the first hundred days. and civil rights would not be a core component of fdr. his administration. it was something