Benton, MO
Jan. 9 , 1939
To the Editor of Everyday Magazine, Post Dispatch, St. Louis, MO
Dear Sirs:
I am writing in regard to my opinion of the people we should have in the White House. I am very much pleased with the people we have there now. It is impossible for me to express in words or writing my admiration for Mrs. Roosevelt. I have felt assured and satisfied that she would take care of any problems that came before her. She has put before our country in general a wonderful example, and I am sure she is very much loved by the great majority of people for the interests she has taken in public affairs for the advise and help she has so generously given.
It is my opinion that she is admired more than any other President’s wife. Of course, the Presidents’ wives of the past were admired for their charm and social roll, their graciousness and official activities. I have no doubt that the public spirited woman has won the day, and from now on will be preferred to the President’s wife who just devotes herself to the role of hostess duties of the White House. I think the wife of the President of the United States should not give up the interests of the United States should not give up the interests that are dear to her. That she should be free to live the kind of life she would chose if her husband was not President.
It is interesting to know that the children of our President do not remain idle but that they are ambitious and self supporting and are not just satisfied that their father is President. This congenial and happy family all seem interested in their own activities regardless of their father’s position. How very proud these children of the President of the United States must be to call Mrs. Roosevelt, “Mother,” although she has been criticized by people that perhaps do not understand. But criticism meant nothing compared to the praise and the love of our nation for her. Our old ideals of the First Lady have changed as the world moves on.
We appreciate and need Mrs. Roosevelt. Could we ever find anyone so active and so interested in public affairs and the nation’s problems. I think a President’s wife should have a career if she so choses. So when another election day rolls around, I am sure for the good of our country a third term is the very thing.
Yours very respectively,
Mrs. Edna M. Drexler
Benton, MO