Eleanor Roosevelt’s Folk-Filled Valentine’s Day
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt attended a Valentine’s Day dance on February 13, 1944 at the newly opened United Federal Labor Canteen in Washington, DC that was sponsored by the Congress… 
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