If You Ask Me
by Eleanor Roosevelt

Of course, there is no way of my knowing what you have heard. I can only say that I feel sure that my husband was not in any way anti-Semitic. The question never came up in any serious way in our household because he knew that I felt deeply about the right of all people to be treated as equals in our country, and I took it for granted that he felt the same way. As far as I was able to tell there was never any indication that he did not.

No. They are a doctor's prescription and have no particular name as far as I know.

I am afraid I did not ask Sheik Suleiman El Haseil to come and visit me in this country; and I am not aware that he ever invited me to be his wife, although I have heard some rumors of this in the papers!

It is quite impossible to tell before a man has been nominated for the presidency what kind of president he would make. I would not presume to forecast such a thing for any one of the possible candidates.

My favorite flowers are lilies of the valley and pansies, and my husband's were roses.

Of course, no one thing is ever the only reason something occurs. The fact that Congress has not appropriated enough money for research is the fault of the voters who have not been research-minded and insisted upon it. If the money that has been appropriated has not been used properly by the Secretary of Defense, then it is up to the people to speak up about that too. It seems to me that the country as a whole has been very complacent about keeping the budget down at the expense of defense measures.

I am not often terribly annoyed, but I use a number of expressions such as "gosh darn," and sometimes I will say "What in blazes am I going to do about this?"

I do not want any religions to predominate in Government, although I think it is important that our people and our representatives should be religious. I do not happen to have come into contact with the "religious bigotry" of the Catholic Church.