Looking back on Roosevelt visit to Missouri

Friday, October 19, 2007

Fifty years ago this week, Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a noted humanitarian in her own right, spoke in Cape Girardeau. I was there. That night is among the top 10 events of my youth, along with getting my driver’s license on my 16th birthday without ever having driven a car.

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