Roosevelt, Eleanor

Also in his new country Einstein remained a prominent figure. In 1934 he and his wife were invited by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and spent a night at the White House. Einstein remained scientifically active—he wrote, in fact, some good papers, but nothing as memorable as in his European days. 

Second, there was the basic mistrust on the part of Congress toward Tugwell and other New Dealers. At the same time, Roosevelt gave the measure only lukewarm support at best (tradition has it that if it had not been for the First Lady, Eleanor, he would have given it no support at all) because of his political differences with Royal Copeland. 

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent —Eleanor Roosevelt, stateswoman... 

New Deal Network. 2003. TVA Electricity for All Rural Electrification. New York Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, Teachers College/Columbia University. http //newdeal. feri.org/tva/tvalO.htm. 

In my book Inclusion Starts with I (Winters, 2003), I assert that inclusion begins with the individual. An inclusion mindset often requires transforming the way individuals in the workforce think and behave. Eleanor Roosevelt sums up this sentiment for me in her book You Learn by Living (2011) You must try to understand truthfully what makes you do things or feel things. Until you have been able to face the truth about yourself you cannot be really sympathetic or understanding in regard to what happens to other people (p. 63). 

Fortunately Frankfurter had heard about the project he called X. He says he heard from some distinguished American scientists, but he certainly heard from a distraught yoimg Met Lab scientist who had penetrated all the way to Frankfurter and Eleanor Roosevelt in 1943 with complaints about Du Pont I had thus become aware of X—aware, that is, that there was such a thing as X and of its significance. Since Frankfurter knew Bohr s field he assumed X was the reason for Bohr s visit ... 

Vice President Harry S. Truman of Independence, Missouri, who knew only the bare fact of the Manhattan Project s existence, said later that when he heard from Eleanor Roosevelt that he must assume the Presidency in Franklin Roosevelt s place, I kept thinking. The lightning has struck. The lightning has struck Between the Thursday of Roosevelt s death and the Sunday of the memorial service on the Hill, Otto Frisch delivered to Robert Oppenheimer his report on the first experimental determination of the critical mass of pure U235. Little Boy needed more than one critical mass, but the fulfillment of that requirement was now only a matter of time. The lightning had struck at Los Alamos as well. 

From Chicago Szilard approached Roosevelt through his wife. Eleanor Roosevelt agreed to see Um on May 8 to pursue the matter. Thus fortified, he wandered to Arthur Compton s office to confess his out-of-channel sins. Compton surprised him by cheering him on. Elated by finding no resistance where I expected resistance, Szilard reports, I went back to my office. I hadn t been in my office for five minutes when there was a knock on the door and Compton s assistant came in, telling me that he had just heard over the radio that President Roosevelt had died-... 

Everyone felt the pressure of the approaching test. It took its toll. That last week in many ways dragged, Elsie McMillan remembers in many ways it flew on wings. It was hard to behave normally. It was hard not to think. It was hard not to let off steam. We also found it hard not to overindulge in all the natural activities of life. In a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt in 1950 Oppenheimer recalled an odd group delusion ... 

Acknowledgments. We thank Dr. M. Jacobson for valuable advice, Ms L Zbinden for excellent technical assistance, the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Association of Cigarette Manufacturers for research support, the International Union against Cancer for an Eleanor Roosevelt fellowship to one of us (G.P.) and the Swiss Government for a postdoctoral followship (N.S.). 

Maslow theorized that the individual, having satisfied all the lower levels of needs, now has the potential for self-actualization, a concern for the well-being of others or the state of society. Examples of self-actualized individuals include Eleanor Roosevelt and Mother Teresa. 

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