This magazine article explains what a unique force in presidential history Eleanor Roosevelt was. She defied convention in so many ways and to illustrate this point, this anonymous journalist went to some length listing fifteen "firsts" that this most tireless of all First Ladies had racked-up through the years - we shall list only four of them, the attached article will list the rest:
•She was the first President's wife to continue her own career in the White House.
•The first to hold regular press conferences.
•The first to travel by air.
•The first to have traveled so widely, so extensively and tirelessly, and to have examined conditions at first hand and under all situations.
