and he was referring to his personal secretary, missy lehan. 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 earl miller who i'll show you a picture of in a minute. you've got to remember, you know, we think of these people like saints now, but they were flesh and blood folks just like us. well, we don't know if there were such a letter although there were people who supposedly saw the letter, and the letter was supposedly destroyed by louie howe who was eleanor's great friend and confidant. but, of course, he was also franklin's political genius. at any rate, how does it happen then that this unwilling woman who really didn't want to be first lady rewrote the script for a first lady from 1933 until 1945? and made the job of first lady part of the white house political c