Eleanor Roosevelt influenced many New Deal policies during her time as First Lady. She advocated for programs that helped women, African Americans, the unemployed, and poor families. She pressed FDR to create the National Youth Administration and relief programs. ER also championed civil rights, workers' rights, and federal support for housing, arts, and labor protections. Through her investigations and lobbying, ER played a key role in shaping many of FDR's social programs and policies to assist Americans suffering from the Depression.

1. 25 JUNE 2012 – ELEANOR DAY and the beginning of a
NEW WEB 2.0 GREEN DEAL DAY ?
By COGEO CONSULTING at the Press Club of France
(www.pressclub.fr)
Philippe Porta – CEO – COGEO CONSULTING ( OSHA – EMS – CSR )
(www.cogeoconsulting.com)
Florian Gomart - CORPORATE ECOLOGIST at COGEO and Legal
International Advisor for NGO and “Ni Putes Ni Soumises” directed by
Fadela Amara
(florian.gomart@laposte.net)
Mathieu Rochat, and Team members – WEBO CONFERENCE
(www.weboconference.com)
GREEN COLLAR GUYS AND WOMEN are today changing the World for a
better future for our childrens….
In the New Green Web 2.0 Business, they create the conditions against
social, environmental and economic crisis…
The Web 2.0 Green solution is perhaps the good solution even in Germany,
Angela Merkel decided to kill some Green Business to preserve the budget
of the German Federal Government.
We are thinking, we need all Green Collar Guys and Women, all over the
Word, to realize our Dreams – a Safe World, peace and wellbeing for
people living in every country…
So I remembered Georges Frèche: he was my Teacher on American
History at the University of Montpellier (France) in 82-84’ period.
Once upon an Eleanor Day on 25 June, he told us about ER and the big
influence she had during The New Deal…..
Today, I have a thought for every woman, just because all woman could be
an ER!

2. 1932 – USA – THE NEW DEAL ( ROOSEVELT – ER – and Keynes)
2012 – FRANCE – THE NEW WEB 2.0 GREEN NEW DEAL –
With COGEO CONSULTING
Philippe Porta – Florian Gomart – Mathieu Rochat
They are influencing the World for a Better Life !
Question: What New Deal Policies did Eleanor Roosevelt influence?
Answer:
Although she worried at first that her life as first lady
would end her freedom to speak out and act for the causes
she cared so deeply about, ER soon found ways of
exerting her influence in her new role. She began holding
press conferences open only to women reporters. She
worked successfully with Molly Dewsonto increase the
number of women appointments in the Roosevelt
administration. She argued that women should be able to
hold their jobs even if their husbands were employed, and
made sure there were relief programs for women ("She-
She-She Camps"), as well as for men. She pressed for the
creation of youth programs, encouraging the
establishment of the National Youth Administration. She
befriended black leaders Mary McLeod
Bethune and Walter White, became a champion of civil
rights, lobbied against the poll tax, supported
the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union, and pushed for the
inclusion of blacks in government programs. Housing
became one of her special concerns and she worked with
the Housing Division of the Public Works
Administration and the Washington Housing Authority to support planned communities
("greenbelt towns") and slum clearance projects. She enthusiastically supported federal aid to
the arts, played a key role in establishing the Federal Arts Projects, and defended the projects
against congressional attacks. She took a special interest in the communities built by the
Roosevelt administration for displaced workers, particularly the one at Arthurdale, West
Virginia, which she visited frequently. A strong supporter of workers' rights, she lobbied for
theNational Labor Relations Act, championed the concept of a living wage, and urged the
passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

3. She visited coal mines, migrant camps, and the homes of sharecroppers and slum-dwellers.
She inspected government programs and projects. Through her tireless travels throughout the
country and the heavy volume of mail she received from people desperately seeking help, she
placed herself more personally and directly in touch with the conditions under which people
lived during the Depression than any member of FDR's administration. She employed this
knowledge in her articles, speeches, radio talks, and the "My Day" column she began writing
six days a week in 1936, urging the adoption of measures to address the needs of the
American people. She sent some of the letters she received from people seeking help to
government officials with a note asking if something could be done. She reported to FDR on
conditions during theDepression, on the success or failure of New Deal programs, passed on
letters asking for help, lobbied for specific policy initiatives, and urged him to act.
As Rexford Tugwell, one of the original members of FDR's Brains Trust, described ER's
attempts to lobby FDR, "No one who ever saw Eleanor Roosevelt sit down facing her
husband, and, holding his eye firmly, say to him, 'Franklin, I think you should . . .' or,
'Franklin, surely you will not . . .' will ever forget the experience. . . . It would be impossible
to say how often and to what extent American governmental processes have been turned in
new directions because of her determination."(1)
Notes:
1. Rexford Tugwell, "Remarks," Roosevelt Day Dinner Journal,
Americans for Democratic Action, January 31, 1963.
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