ABSTRACT
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Louis Howe had not waited for political opportunities. They made their own. From their point of view, Franklin's disability was merely another fact to be managed. He could not rush about appearing at conferences and meetings, as he once had. Eleanor and Louis helped. Mrs. Roosevelt became chairman of the Womens Division of the Democratic State Committee and worked with the Womens Trade Union League. Her new friends helped to educate Franklin on current issues, and, with Louis's aid, she edited the Womens Democratic News. Roosevelt made a last desperate bid to rouse the Congressmen to action by relaying reports that eastern newspapers opposed the conference out of fear of a Democratic Congress in 1926. Roosevelt helped little to clarify a national Democratic position, for he dealt in slogans and easy compromises. He himself could not define the limits of his liberalism, although he could write glibly.
