ELEANOR WANTS JFK TO SPEAK TO THE NATION ABOUT INFLATION
New York City (JFK+50) In her "My Day" column of February 13, 1961, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote that President John F. Kennedy's labor secretary, Arthur J. Goldberg*, said we "are in a full-fledged (economic) recession" and called on government, business and labor to work together to end it.
Mrs. Roosevelt asked President Kennedy to "speak to the nation, explaining the real causes and the importance of avoiding inflation, but the need...for taking...action."
The 'First Lady of the World' wrote that a recent newspaper photograph of men at an unemployment center in Chicago reminded her of the drawing hanging in her cottage at Hyde Park of "unemployed youth sitting on a bench" during the Great Depression.
*Arthur Joseph Goldberg (1908-1990) was born in Chicago & graduated from Northwestern University School of Law (1930).
AJG served in the OSS during WWII & after his tenure as Secretary of Labor was a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court and U.N. Ambassador.
JFK+50 NOTE
President Kennedy spoke to the Nation as ER counseled on May 25, 1961. In his address to Congress, JFK said...
"The recession has been halted. Recovery is underway."
SOURCE
"My Day, February 13, 1961," by Eleanor Roosevelt, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Digital Edition, www2.gwu.edu/
