he was referring to his personal secretary, missy lahan. in fact, history is dubious on this, but it is in the biographies, there is even speculation that eleanor was so upset by thinking of having to be first lady, which she saw as an empty ceremonial role, she didn't want to participate in, that she wrote a letter and in that letter threatened to leave franklin and run away with her old miller who i'll show you a picture of in a minute. you got to remember, you know, we think of the people as saints now. they are flesh and blood folks just like us. we don't know for sure if there was such a letter. although there were people who supposedly saw the letter and the letter with supposedly destroyed by louie howe, who was eleanor's great friend and confident. he was also franklin's political genius. how does it happen that the unwilling woman didn't want to be, rewrote the script for first lady from 1933 until 1945 and made the job of first lady part of the white house political communication process as it is today? it's a script that all of h