First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents

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Dee Brestin in The Friendships of Women described the difference in friendships of women and of men. Men do things with their friends. Women build intimacy with close friends. All of the Presidential friends detailed in this book show that the people are capable of building intimacy--so much so that others wondered if the relationships were tainted. Our assessment and monitoring, in partnership with parents and other professionals, enables us to identify childrens individual needs and progress. Offers Tax Free Childcare Franklin couldn’t unwind with Eleanor, who was pretty tightly wound and felt like she was wasting precious time if she enjoyed herself. He had an intimate relationship with Eleanor’s social secretary, Lucy Mercer, that Eleanor found out about and put the ky-bosh on in 1918. There was Missy LeHand, Roosevelt’s private secretary, who was by Franklin’s side for 20 years until she was crippled by a stroke. And her replacement, Grace Tully, but it was with Daisy that Franklin really opened up, and even though Daisy always stayed out of the limelight, she was smart enough to keep their correspondence, but didn’t tell anyone about it. Their relationship was only discovered after her death in 1991.

Some presidents clearly were better at making friends than others. John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton were famously gregarious, while Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon had a paucity of pals.

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Here are the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among These and other friendships—including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison , Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne , and Bill Clinton and Vernon Jordan —populate this fresh and provocative exploration of a series of seminal presidential friendships.

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