and in washington, here she and mary mccloud bassoon are visiting a residence african-american women war workers. once again eleanor is 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. here she is entertaining the first lady of china. and we know the end of the story of eleanor's first lady. fdr dies in 1945 unexpectedly. guess who's with him when he dice? -- dies? lucy mercer. eleanor is appointed u.s. delegate -- 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, 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 thank and try to make the case in the book that eleanor's ability to turn the r

when mary mccloud was a close intimate of eleanor roosevelt once was visiting the white house, one of the white house security guards referred of her aunties which one of my sister's children are you. that was mary mccloud bassoon but eleanor roosevelt gets a lot of credit for being liberal and for being a civil rights orders that had to do with civil rights orders often only when forced but he wasn't quite -- he didn't quite live up to his outside p.r. >> guest: he didn't. eleanor did publicly and privately did push very aggressively on civil rights issues and sometimes to the point where her husband kept saying, well, that's enough, you know, i've heard enough. if i keep pushing in this direction i'm going to alienate that familiar pattern of the southern states and they won't accept the rest of the new deal. but privately roosevelt was in this period of trusting his african-american staff very much. roosevelt was paralyzed. his legs were paralyzed from polio. he had been paralyzed because of polio in at the age of 39. he was afraid of fire having fire in his room and couldn't escap

. >> mary mccloud. >> peace and stability in afghanistan helped by leaving an entire lting legacy and i welcome the officer -- in school. also agree with me that it is important for education for all especially young girls. >> i do agree. if you want to see a long-term stable afghanistan that canno be possible by excluding half of the population from being educated. if you look right across north africa and the middle east, permanent education of women is not just important for human-rights but also economic development and peace and progress as well. >> i welcome the prime minister's statements. back in march of this year, honorable members -- the opportunity to preserve afghanistan to our province. and some of the people from -- oppressed by their energy and commitment. what they did need was a $6 million -- and could the prime minister give us an indication that there's going to be a transition of power or security? there needs to be training of police and the start of that in the province. >> i make two points. the police training colleges up and running and working. i visited it

that was mary mccloud. but roosevelt gets a lot of credit for being very liberal, for being a civil rights advocate, certainly he did sign executives ordered that had to do with civil rights issues. often only when forced. but he wasn't quite -- he didn't live up to his inside pr. >> guest: no, he didn't. eleanor did. she both publicly and privately did push aggressively on civil rights. 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 the southern states and they won't accept the rest of the nacelle, -- the new deal, the private agenda. he was trusting the staff very much. roosevelt his legs were paralyzed polio at 39. irony because it's a young person's disease. he was always afraid of fire that he would be caught in the room and could not escape fire. when he was in the white house, also concerned about enny attacks, they launched the crawling exercises. the president in order to escape would have to practice

. >> mary mccloud. >> peace and stability in afghanistan helped by leaving an entire lasting legacy and i welcome the officer -- in school. also agree with me that it is important for education for all especially young girls. >> i do agree. if you want to see a long-term stable afghanistan that cannot be possible by excluding half of the population from being educated. if you look right across north africa and the middle east, permanent education of women is not just important for human-rights but also economic development and peace and progress as well. >> i welcome the prime minister's statements. back in march of this year, honorable members -- the opportunity to preserve afghanistan to our province. and some of the people from -- oppressed by their energy and commitment. what they did need was a $6 million -- and could the prime minister give us an indication that there's going to be a transition of power or security? there needs to be training of police and the start of that in the province. >> i make two points. the police training colleges up and running and working. i visited it