If You Ask Me
by Eleanor Roosevelt

It would depend on whether or not the school in New York City was a good one. If it had good teachers and its standards were high, the fact that 60 per cent of the pupils were Negro and Puerto Rican would make no difference. Unfortunately, the schools in the areas primarily lived in by Negroes and Puerto Ricans do not always attain the highest standards. That is why a change in our housing patterns is extremely desirable.

I am sorry to say I have not read Lolita. I have heard many things about the book, but I do not believe in censorship. No one is forced to read anything he does not want to read.

I very rarely catch colds. Usually they come from being overweary. My doctor has some very remarkable pills which, if taken at the first sign of a head cold, are a good preventive.

I think Governor Faubus is a very ambitious man who unfortunately has forgotten the public interest in his private interest.

Possibly the first inauguration was the most moving and exciting time for us both.

I am very sorry but I cannot possibly sell one of my old hats. Usually I give them away. I cannot think they would add anything of beauty to your collection; there are many people who are making history from whom you could get a hat of greater beauty and interest.

I have not the remotest idea. He did not turn against me particularly; he turned against my husband and the family in general. I have always thought it was because he was disappointed in not working for my husband in a position he would have enjoyed. Perhaps it also was partly because he did not like some of the things which happened to him during my husband's administration, and partly because it was lucrative to write the kind of column he was writing. I may be wrong, however, in all these suppositions, I am sure that he thinks all the wrong things which he attributes to us are true and that he has an obligation to state his beliefs.

Adlai Stevenson.

I was next to my husband when he was talking to Mr. Byrnes at the convention in Chicago. We were in a car in the railroad yards, and I know what went on in that conversation because I heard it. There were no accusations of double-crossing at that time.