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could have been made in the late 18th century or early 19th. I think they were strictly late 19th or early 20th imitations and badly selected. So in contrast with Roosevelt's skill for being the head of a great country and with his other skills. Neither he nor his mother nor his wife had any of the skills of making a home look charming or knowing what good things really were, although the big living room in Hyde Park has beautiful proportions and has an air of comfort and security, there was practically nothing any good in it except I think one portrait of an ancestor by Gilbert Stewart.

I wanted to say here in connection with the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, there's an Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation which was organized shortly after her death under the presidency of . It was set up by an act of Congress, which, believe it or not, took four or five months to achieve. As a matter of fact, there was no need for it to be an act of Congress. It could just have been organized, and the quicker you organize something like that after the death of a loved person, the better it is because people are moved by their death at the time and are willing to do something, but as time goes on, they're distracted by their own needs and don't want to give money in the name of that person particularly unless





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