Lucy Mercer person
also: Lucy, Lucy Bursar
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Franklin D. Rooseveltperson · 6Eleanor Rooseveltperson · 5Sarah Delanoperson · 4Vanderbilt familyfamily · 3Winthrop Rutherfordperson · 2Churchill Familyfamily · 1Theodore Rooseveltperson · 1Delano-Roosevelt familyfamily · 1Consuelo Vanderbiltperson · 1
Claims (2)
Franklin D. Roosevelt had_affair_with
Lucy Mercer host_asserted
“oh goodness i've got the best mother-in-law i could have ever wanted so i count my blessings i do too let's see what else is there oh she's really involved with the raising of eleanor's children you know eleanor is not a weak woman by any s…”
▶ The Shadow State 55 The Delano and Roosevelt Bloodlines @ 39:03
Lucy Mercer married
Winthrop Rutherford host_asserted
“basically sticking her nose into the marriage. The affair gets discovered in 1918. Eleanor offers, I'll offer you a divorce. And Sarah comes in and says, that ain't happening. If you do that, Franklin will lose his entire inheritance from t…”
▶ The Shadow State 55 The Delano and Roosevelt Bloodlines @ 40:50
Mentions (6)
▶ 39:03
oh goodness i've got the best mother-in-law i could have ever wanted so i count my blessings i do too let's see what else is there oh she's really involved with the raising of eleanor's children you know eleanor is not a weak woman by any s…
▶ 39:40
Sarah is actually very supportive of Eleanor. And you say, oh, did she have a good side? No, she did not want to hurt FDR's political career. That was her motivation. She cared about his political career. Remember, their cousin, Teddy Roose…
▶ 40:50
basically sticking her nose into the marriage. The affair gets discovered in 1918. Eleanor offers, I'll offer you a divorce. And Sarah comes in and says, that ain't happening. If you do that, Franklin will lose his entire inheritance from t…
▶ 41:27
Now, he's an interesting gentleman because that wasn't his first proposal. His first proposal was to Consuelo Vanderbilt, the dollar princess that would marry into the Churchill family. That was more attractive to the Vanderbilts than marry…
▶ 41:59
affair continued there's also talk that eleanor and fdr never slept in the same bed again and they were basically just political business partners yeah and um the vanderbilt is the one um that was held prisoner until she married um the euro…
▶ 42:31
um eleanor but she act she also worked for fdr when he was over at the um navy department winthrop dies in 1944 and they resumed their affair openly apparently or not too openly because he wasn't really discovered until 1966 and she was act…