![]() ![]() ![]() But once she fell in love with Eleanor, she couldn’t report objectively on the First Lady. It cost Hickok her job as a reporter for the Associated Press, where she had covered national stories like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Historians have debated the nature of their relationship, but it’s now generally thought to have been a deep romance. Roosevelt’s affair with his secretary Missy LeHand). ![]() Roosevelt.” Imagine reading that description of yourself–and imagine seeing your lover described as your “fast friend.” Hard knocks for Hick.Īmy Bloom has done just that kind of imagining in White Houses, creating a novel out of the long-standing affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Hickok, which was an open secret inside the White House (as was Franklin D. In her day one of the country’s best female newshawks, she was assigned to Albany to cover the New York Executive Mansion where she became fast friends with Mrs. Time first wrote about Lorena Hickok (“Hick” to her friends) in 1934: “She is a rotund lady with a husky voice, a peremptory manner, baggy clothes. ![]()
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