hotel there for a while, and then back to the village, back to the sheraton, and then tried to get aouse in manhattan, but eventually retreats back to valkill. >> well, you both have talked about how she used valkill as a political meeting ground. here's a little bit of the public eleanor roosevelt at valkill. >> this is valkill cottage, the building that operated formally as a furniture factory. after the death of fdr, mrs. roosevelt turned this into her primary residence, and that's when it was actually named valkill cottage. these are the steps in the entranceway that mrs. roosevelt and numerous world figures, such as john f. kennedy, nikita khrushchev, winston churchill, and many other notables would have entered the home with mrs. roosevelt. the desk here is where she worked on her my day column, some of her books, magazine articles, and tremendous correspondence with the american public. and of course, that's the desk with the misspelled nametag. the nametag was presented to mrs. roosevelt by a young man in hyde park. he crafted the item in his shop class, having no idea that h