What Happened To FDR's 6 Children?
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Anna Roosevelt | 0:00
James Roosevelt II | 2:37
The First Franklin Roosevelt Jr. | 3:50
Elliott Roosevelt | 4:48
The Second Franklin Roosevelt Jr. | 7:44
John Roosevelt | 9:08
Voiceover by: Tim Bensch
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Which of FDR's kids lived the most interesting life?
Anna
Depends what you mean by interesting. They all seemed to have led pretty full lives (good and bad).
Anna, but Elliott soo interesting bad boy)
FDR, Jr He should've been President
@@user-ne6fx6ll2b why? he was a politician yes, but why president? he had such interesting and usefull program?
My father was Supply Officer in USS Baltimore in 1944 when she took FDR from San Francisco to Honolulu for a conference with General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz. When the meeting was over, they took the President to Alaska for a fishing trip. When Baltimore returned to SF my dad left the ship with orders to his new duty station in Washington, DC and was met by my mother and my oldest brother who he had not seen for over a year. My mother told me many years later that my dad had told her "the president is really sick, he will not survive a fourth term", or words to that affect. Barely nine months later he was dead.
Don’t you mean a 4th term?
@@sherriebenson356 Thank you. Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. The public had been kept in the dark about the true state of his health.
@@roberttrott5259 Most Americans didn't even know he was paralyzed. A very different time.
@@oneeyedman99paralyzed and had a mistress?
@@ABab-jf2jb He was paralyzed, but not as paralyzed as people who had been throgh, say, a broken neck. He couldn't only walk a few steps, but he could still stand and give a speech (with the help of braces), and could walk in a swimming pool. So yes, a mistress was far from out of the question.
I was named for Eleanor Roosevelt. My Mom was a big fan of Franklin, she just loved him, so I was given the name Jacquelyn Eleanor Horn at birth. Now I have a granddaughter, Eleanor, named after me. She is a real Dickens and a smooth operator. When she gets to be a teen, they will have trouble with her. She has already decided she wants a limo for a car.🥰
I was at Warm Springs, GA about a decade ago whilst a Roosevelt family reunion was taking place. Gathering together from all over to watch the Ken Burns documentary before it was shown to the public if memory serves me right. I was amazed at how strong Eleanor & Frankin's genes were when I witnessed their grandchildren & great grandchildren walking around town & attending functions. A few men had Franklin's looks & mannerisms & there were teenage girls so tall just like Eleanor. It would be interesting to learn about their lives & see how being the grandchildren & great grandchildren of such a famous power couple affects their lives.
😅Elliot also wrote good mysteries with his mother as the sleuth.
I've read all of them and really enjoyed them. I liked the way he wove personalities of the era into his stories.
Whatever their other virtues, the Roosevelts don't seem to have modeled a solid marriage for their offspring. The five surviving Roosevelt children had 21 marriages.
Unless you have lived 150 yrs...don't judge others. It's useless.
So did Liz Tolar
Nuts. Eleanor was predominantly gay. He built a house for her and 2 women friends on his property. She accepted his mistress living in White House. No other First Lady did anywhere NEAR what she did for 12 YEARS.
Wow!
There was also a minor event when one son, a naval officer stationed in the Pacific, radioed his brother, likewise stationed, after their father died, asking if he was going to the funeral. The other brother said no ("Let's finish up out here," was close to the answer he gave.)
By the time Franklin died, his sons had barely any relationship with him at all, as they had to get on the president's calendar to have a conversation with him.
Eleanor was certainly a historical person, but after reading her autobiography I realized that the Eleanor legend was far greater than the Eleanor reality based on her own words
Franklin wouldn't have been as successful as he was without her. She had the coveted Roosevelt lineage, stature, reputation, and money.
@travelingwithkaylon her greatest contribution was winning the war with his mother about how he should live after he got polio. His mother wanted him to take it easy, stay at Hyde Park and collect stamps. A different woman may have agreed.
Eleanor was teddy’s niece
What president didn’t have a mistress?
@judysilvio1511 yes, for several years. She is said to have carried on with both men and women herself.
How hurtful for Eleanor to learn he had been with his mistress before he died. Eleanor was known for her hard work, and no nonsense. A true lady.
Full of grace.
And her $hit of a daughter knew all about his affair and rubbed her mother’s nose in it.
I don’t think she really cared. She may have been happy to have him occupied elsewhere. She definitely had more class than he ever did. And I highly doubt she didn’t know about the affair. What would have strained the relationship with her daughter was that she sided with her father. It has also been rumored that Eleanor was a lesbian. I don’t know the truth of that.
Who also had affairs with other ladies…I respect her but she did have affairs too
@@lyndawilliams4570 it’s rumoured.
Elliott wrote a GREAT book series with his mom as the heroine.
'Intrepidity' and 'mayoralty'. You taught me new words!🙂
Quote from Don Quixote "The facts just conceal the truth"
This was our famous President.
Good marriages are scarce. If you have one. BE GRATEFUL.
How about the grandchildren next?
OMG THEY WERE ON WHAT'S MY LINE! ❤ TOTALLY FORGOT! ❤
Very interesting!
Elliott wrote some great mystery novels, they are worth reading
I love his mysteries! I reread them occasionally, and can still enjoy them. His mother helps law enforcement is solving mysteries.
If you want to know the real story of why WW2 and the Cold War started one place to start is his son Elliot Roosevelts writings. FDR brought him along to his meetings especially the ones with Churchill and Stalin. He made sure Stalin and his son were well acquainted. Both FDR and Stalin did not trust Churchill at all. FDR has said on multiple occasion that Churchill/Londons goal is to both maintain the Empire and strengthen it. FDRs stated goal was to stop the Empires of Europe and make sure the colonies have their sovereignty. When FDR died Elliot Roosevelt met with Stalin and Stalin was quoted saying "it was Churchill and his gang who killed your father". Probably the best book to read on the subject is "The Clash of the Two Americas. The Unfinished Symphony" by Matthew Ehret. I have no affiliation with them but they also have an audiobook which can make it easier since not many people like to sit down and read anymore. It has multiple references on the bottom of each page of the book.
I think that Lucy Rutherford should be considered "former mistress". Toward the end of his life, FDR was exhausted and ill. He craved downtime with people who didn't make any demands on him. Eleanor famously treated their one-on-one time as an opportunity to pitch her own political agenda. Anna took charge late in his life as his protector as described in this piece. Her role in the Yalta trip was very key. She facilitated many opportunities for FDR to relax and conserve the limited energy that he had.
Yes, Lucy Rutherford spent time with FDR toward the end, but no one has alleged the resumption of their sexual affair. My opinion is that she was an old friend that FDR was comfortable with and nothing more tawdry than conversation happened in his last months. But obviously it was hurtful when Eleanor found out, especially when she learned of Anna's role.
Your comment sounds like something Camilla Parker Bowles would say--the Chivalrous Mistress as Old Friend escape hatch. Though ill, FDR was still president, and exhausted or not, he had a responsibility to the nation. If unable to fulfill that responsibility, he had an obligation to step down. He didn't step down, but was lucky enough to have a wife dedicated to helping or herding him to fulfill that responsibility.
@@emilerose1424 You've been reading too many fan magazines and not enough US history. Eleanor Roosevelt had nothing to do with the Roosevelt administration in terms of cabinet leadership, military leadership, or other governmental functions. She was a national figure to be sure and she was Roosevelt's eyes and ears in many respects due to her frequent travel. He would use her to float some of his more radical ideas to test them on the public.
Roosevelt is a complicated person and his health up to the election of 1944 was an issue. But he was fully engaged in government and national leadership to the end of his life. Moreover, he had long before made key appointments such as Henry Stimson and George Marshall and those people continued to prosecute the war to a successful conclusion. I stand by my statement that Lucy was an ex-mistress. Can someone stop being a mistress and just be a friend? Or does a dalliance in the 19-teens that ended 30+ years prior still rate a person as "his mistress"?
EXACTLY!!! The daughter tried to bring some joy to her dying father. Her parents didn't have an actual marriage for decades. And she was also much closer to her father than to her mother. Why not bring your dying father a little happiness by letting him spend a little bit of time with the woman who is the love of his life?
You are not alone in reading history. You and I just have different values.
@@emilerose1424 If nothing else, I don't see how resuming contact with someone who once was indeed "his mistress" makes her, in 1945, once again "his mistress". Also I see no connection with Parker-Bowles and Charles. Their "affair" was ongoing from Charles' youth until well into adulthood. He would have gladly brought her into the limelight except that "The Firm" was dead set against it. Finally the queen relented and then the relationship was normalized and even consecrated. But yes, both men broke their marriage vows so your values do pertain. Your historical analysis is less acute. IMHO that is...
Franklin Jr. was married 5 times, Anna 3 times, Elliot 5 times, James 4 times, and John twice. By contrast, none of cousin Teddy’s six kids was married more than once. A difference in parenting, perhaps?
Yet, at least one of TR's daughters openly carried on with men who weren't her husband and had a child by an affair partner. That child eventually died under mysterious, still inconclusive circumstances.
@@travelseatsyellowlab That would be ol’ Alice, about which Teddy famously said, “I can run the country or I can run Alice. But I can’t do both.” Ironically, while Alice was a handful and her first cousin Eleanor was an angel, it was Eleanor who had all the kids who couldn’t keep themselves married!
@@Griffinmc multiple divorces > Having an only child who attempted suicide at least once, couldn't succeed in college, abandoning their only child due to a suspected suicide.
@Griffinmc also, TR's son Kermit's son, stepping out on his wife, becoming a public embarrassment, eventually taking his own life.
@@travelseatsyellowlab True, but Ethel and Ted had good loving marriages. Archie was a curmudgeon but a decent father and husband. We’ll never know about Quentin, but he probably would have gotten himself into some kind of trouble. (I beat you to it!)
Hold it! $7500+$2500=$10000. So, which is it, ten big ones or a hundred big ones?
Seeing FDR laugh and cut up with Stalin is truly sickening.
They did what all politicians do, smile and wave.
@swan378 They were allies at the time and they needed to keep Stalin sweet to fight the war on the Eastern front. Of course the US and UK being who they are, turned the tables on Russia and made them number one 'bad guys' and started the cold war, as an excuse for the arms race.
"Influence Peddling"! Hello, Ivanka! Hello, Hunter! Nothing new under the sun, eh?
My grandparents and their whole family despised both. I was told they were classic rich NY that are community narcissists. And they were Dutch too, so embarrassing.
Eleanor did not learn from her daughter Anna Boettiger of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd’s presence at FDR’s side in Warm Springs when he died. A cousin of FDR’s named Laura Delano also was present that day; she made a point of telling Eleanor first.
Roosevelt might have lived another 20 years if it had not been for polio and other health issues.
Polio wasn't the problem. He had a horrible heart. Nowadays. He would have been able to live much longer because of medicine, but back then it was a death sentence. He also smoked all his life so that certainly didn't help.
A poor diet, smoking and drinking were major causes of his heart condition.
And stress
He was only in his 50s ....
The oldest daughter seemed like a vindictive nightmare towards her mother.
I agree. Anna betrayed her mother in the worst way but I put the blame on FDR for putting her in a no win situation. Do I disappoint my father or betray my mother. He had plenty of aids he could have gone to to set up meetings between himself and his former mistress. That is not to excuse what Anna did however. I give Eleanor high marks for eventually forgiving her daughters unforgivable betrayal.
It's not her job to be her parents mediator and she shouldn't have been put in that position. Villifying the daughter for her fathers indescretions is ridiculous.
@@robynandrews4384 She was an adult woman who chose the job of her fathers secretary and willingly put herself in the middle so how was it not her job when she chose the job?? She was already married with children herself she wasn’t a 10-year-old she chose to do this to her mother which makes her vindictive.
@@chetyoubetya856510 or a 100, you don’t put your children in that position.
@@chetyoubetya8565Anna had been spiteful towards her mother for years after Eleanor enrolled Anna into Miss Chapin's School in New York, which Anna hadn't wanted to attend. Eleanor also made Anna formally debut into high society as a debutante, which Anna hadn't wanted to do. However, Eleanor's hands weren't entirely clean, either. For her part, she had facilitated an affair between Anna and John Boettiger, while Anna was still married to Curtis Dall.
Well done ! Immediately subscribed. Unique photos. I did screenshots so as to study, totally unique.
Funny…What’s My Line ? was the Colbert or Tonight Show of the day….a must-do appearance for anybody who was anybody.
Forwarding this to others using the Share Arrow above, lots of interest here. Good job!
Eleanor carried a pistol later in life . I saw her permit at the NY Hyde Park Museum.
You try to get a permit in NY State today ……
Well she obviously was in a better position to be getting a permit, given her status!
Yes civil rights are based on Your status .
I have been trying to get a permit to vote but no luck yet ….
According to Ken Burns, Eleanor had a pistol because she insisted on driving the back roads of the US to report back to Franklin. Her security insisted that she carry the pistol.
My wife insists I carry a pistol for my protection but still no luck .
Well with money I am saving on not getting the expensive permit I will be able to pay my Poll tax to vote !
You know restricting civil rights or you might say Infringing is not good .
So Franklin had a girlfriend and Eleanor had a girlfriend. At least it wasn't the same girlfriend, that would be tacky
Enjoyable history.
Elliot wrote mystery stories with his mother as the detective.
I love the clothes
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 1882 - 1945 & Eleanor Roosevelt : 1884 - 1962 ; Their six children : Anna Roosevelt 1906 - 1975, James Roosevelt 1907 - 1991, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. ( 1 ) 1909 - 1909, Elliott Roosevelt 1910 - 1990, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. ( 2 ) 1914 - 1988, and John Roosevelt 1916 - 1981
Alice was Theodore Roosevelts daughter and not fdr
Right, Alice was two years younger than FDR lol. She was the first cousin of Eleanor.
I'm glad someone knows the facts. Ty ❤blessings.
@@GailBrenner-vt9ou My pleasure and likewise!
FDR also had a daughter named Alice.
@@historyprofessor1985 Yes, but FDR first child was also named Alice.
FDR and Eleanor certainly weren't the best parents and didn't set a good example but FDRs mother is also to blame. She meddled in her grandkids upbringing especially when it came to discipline. She would tell them "I'm your real mother, Eleanor only gave birth to you".
Teenage FDR Jr wrecked his car but FDR refused to buy him a new one because Jr was speeding when he wrecked it. Sara butts in and buys him a new one. Jr and John got in trouble at school so FDR and Eleanor takes their pony away as punishment. Sara goes and gets them each a new pony.
When Anna and her first husband Curtis Dall got married Sara bought over FDR and Eleanor objections a luxury apartment in Manhattan. It was Sara's way of entrapping the newlyweds so she'd still have control over them as they could not afford the upkeep of the apartment unless Sara helped them out.
In James's memoirs he actually got fed up with Sara's control and put his foot down. She wanted him to attend a house party she was hosting but he and his wife had plans the same night. When ahe threatened to cut him off financially he said, "Fine then".
If Stalin had met Eleanor he would have behaved himself
Why name another son fdr jr? Seems disrespectful to the first jr child
Jesus! FDR used to young!
They are going to give back what they stole
I'm old and wise enough to know we should value leaders for their public achievements and not for their private lives. Yet here's how poor American education is. I worked in a social services office and not one of my young adult co-workers knew whose image was on the USA dime, let alone why FDR was associated with dimes at all! Anyway, thanks for the video, even if you made several mistakes in it.
Sir Lynden Pindling was the premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and as Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1969 to 1992. He was never the "governor" of the Bahamas. In the Westminster system as it applies to the dominions or colonies of Britain there is a Governor-General for Dominions, a Governor for colonies or a Lieutenant-Governor for subordinate colonies. Lynden Pindling as premier and later Prime Minister was the head of the government of the Bahamas was nominally the subordinate of the Governor and later Governor-General of the Bahamas, but in fact as the system works, he was the "head honcho" as all of the Prime Ministers of Dominions of the British Commonwealth are. Possibly the most famous Governor of the Bahamas was the Nazi sympathizing traitor uncle of the current King who was sent there to get him out of the way and to keep his betrayal out of public view. He was kept under close watch by several British intelligence agencies as well as the American FBI to make sure he didn't get up to any mischief. I'm not exactly sure what Elliott Roosevelt's beef with Pindling was.
YOU didn't mention how many children each one of them had!
Anna had three children.
James had seven children.
Elliott had five, as did Franklin Junior. John had four children.
Where are the grandchildren?
Anne Roosevelt now lives in Maine and supports lots of good civic efforts and higher education, and she helps small businesses use environmental friendly technologies. Quite a fine person.
Eleanor Seagraves, 96, the oldest grandchild, is a retired librarian, teacher, and historian living in the DMV region. Her brother Curtis died at 86, in 2016, while living in France. John Boettiger, 84 of California, is a retired professor.
Sara Roosevelt Whitney Wilford, 89, a professor and administrator at Sarah Lawrence College, died in 2021. Her sister, Kate Roosevelt Whitney Haddad, 87, survives.
Chandler Lindsley, 84, a veterinarian, died in 2018. Her brother Bill Roosevelt, 72, died earlier. Her brothers Elliott, 87, and David, 78, survive.
Joan Roosevelt Schoonmaker, 45, died in 1997. Sara Roosevelt died in 1960. Nina Roosevelt Gibson, 81, an author and retired psychologist, lives in Vail, Arizona.
Christopher du Pont Roosevelt and FDR III, 85, an economist, survive.
There are others. There are just the ones I think of most immediately. All of Theodore Roosevelt's grandchildren are deceased, with the last surviving dying about 14 years ago. However, a number of TR's great-grandchildren survive and are distinguished professionally.
Wow...thanks for the update. I got to see some of them at a Roosevelt family reunion at Warm Springs, GA a decade ago. The Eleanor & Frankin family resemblances were strong.
Mine. 🇺🇸🇺🇳♥️✌️
They all died.
Thanks for the spoiler aler😮
His children? What about Eleanor's much more diffict part in that?
I think that her life would have been quite different for Eleanor Roosevelt had her father lived longer. He was Elliot Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's only brother who died from severe alcoholism when he was in his mid 30's. Had he lived Elliott Roosevelt would have been FDR'S father-in-law.
So, Elliott is Hunter.
Everyone chooses to “forget” that Eleanor had a long term female lover
One could hardly blame her.
@@SafetySpooon she got really pissed, when she discovered FDR died “on the job” at his girlfriends place. His girlfriend had been Eleanor’s private Secretary for some years, there was speculation that both Elinor and FDR were screwing her, Elinor found out, sacked her, made continuation of the marriage conditional on him not seeing the girlfriend. The girlfriend married, had kids, became a widow, then reconnected with FDR!
They were very close sure, but I don’t know of any hard evidence they were lovers.
@@anthonyburke5656Missy LeHand was at Franklin's Warm Springs, Georgia residence when he died, not the other way around. Franklin was dealing with the social secretary hired by Eleanor, not Eleanor.
This is my dad Robert Deatherage is FDR was my father Robert who is the 4th generation cousins in the same family members of the Deatherage family tree ancestors are not lowlifers.
Your comment is difficult to follow. Maybe you could rewrite it?
@@colleenobrien8212 FDR is my father Robert Deatherage 4th cousins other cousins are presidents also 14 total are mine cousins Obama Both Bushes Clinton and Reagan and follder fathers are on the FDR side of the family acestors tree's to the Deatherage family acestors side trees. Princess Diana is on the Deatherage family acestors Spencer end of it when the I 35W bridge collapse in August 1,2007. You saw a police officer Thurston carry me to the medic rigs. And Prince Harry saw it on the news and was mad media was filming me.
@@user-jp4tl9zd8n I didn’t see it but thanks for the clarification.
@@colleenobrien8212No. it’s not you. It’s an almost complete lack of punctuation that makes his previous and later comments unreadable. This unfortunately makes me doubt the veracity of his statement.
FDR has no living grandchildren?
"Repised" is pronounced "re-preezed." ⬅⬅⬅
The narration is far too fast and frantic. Was there a train which had to be caught ?
Lol
Elliott the hunter of his time...
Reagan was the best person to continue FDR's New Deal legacy?? Reagan?
Reagan saw the writing on the wall about what the Democrat party was becoming (tax and spend socialism) and switched. He said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party-they left me.” So, you’re right-Reagan was about as far removed from the Marxist New Deal as FDR was from his morals.
@@susanmcintyre5377 Reagan and Trump cut from the same cloth. My, how history loves to rhyme.
And black people still had it hard!!😳
pretty obvious he didn't have any daughters
One of those sons sounds a lot like Hunter Biden! lol
Lucky he didn't behave like the Trumps. In those days, colluding with enemy nations would lead to a certain espionage charge and jail. Possibly even execution.
@grunge what do you mean Eleanor got herself pregnant again with another boy? I am sure she didn’t do it alone.
James was a sociopath.
How, so?
Hunter Biden not so bad after all! Lol
Lol
That you know of
You know Hunter Biden's good looking, come on man.., 😘 !!!
😊
Nope hunter is still the worse he gave tip secret to China, and don't pull that bullshit trump cause he did not
Eleanor was FDR’s cousin, arranged marriage. There never was a marriage based on love. It was merely the appropriate marriage just like Charles and Diana.
Wow. you totally missed Alice.
Alice was Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter from his first marriage.
@@MaeReevesky i know
Umm… wrong papa President Roosevelt.
If you are going to criticize an informational video, at least check your facts first
Alice was Theodore Roosevelt's daughter.
The tremendous courage it must have taken for FDR to sleep with Eleanor
A one sided video.
To say the least.
Flip your screen to see the other side.
😂🤣
FDR was a long time womanizer
i n 1993 the Governor of the Bahamas was Edward. Prince of England, former king Edward VII.
Edward, Duke of Windsor, was governor of Bahamas in 1940. This was after his abdication and marriage to Wallace Simpson.
King Edward VII died in 1909. He never was Governor of the Bahamas. His grandson King Edward VIII was Governor of the Bahamas after he abdicated the throne in 1938 when he became Duke of Windsor.
Also Lynden Pindling was the Prime of the Bahamas, not the
Governor.
@@nancycolbert2703 Sorry, typo.
WHY WONT THE GOP TELEVISE HUNTER BIDEN'S INTERVIEWS??
The question answers itself. If they could do it in a back room, soundproofed and windowless, that would be even better.
I agree. They want to be able to make it all up.
They have only smoke and no fire.
The GOP???
Dirty deeds prefer darkness.