“He seems very anxious to have his portrait done now”

On November 27, 1944, Roosevelt left for the Little White House in Warm Springs for the annual Thanksgiving dinner with his fellow polio patients. He planned to stay three weeks. This was his first long visit to Warm Springs since the United States had entered the war. Eleanor stayed in Washington. She hadn’t wanted to go, and she felt she could stay behind as Laura Delano known as “Polly” and Margaret “Daisy” Suckley were going with Roosevelt.