e lita black. >> hi, everybody. >> well, my job in nine and a half minutes, is to tell you about eleanor roosevelt as a war leader which, if we can accomplish, we should all agree that i should get the nobel prize for history. of course, they'd have to create one for history first for me to get it, but i would like to do is ask you to move beyond the preconceptions that you have of eleanor roosevelt as a great woman of sorrow. a great woman of conscience and sort of lack of humor, if you will, who only dabbled in politics out of concern for humanity. as i tell students and teachers all over the world i can go home and flap my wings and be back in washington in 15 minutes. this woman was first and foremost a political war horse, to pick up the topics that panel has raised so far edward r. morrow is an exceedingly brilliant, pioneering journalist. eleanor roosevelt was the third most indicated journalist in the united states and the second most syndicated journalist with world circulation. by the war, she had shifted away from doing predominantly domestic politics in her "my day" column wh