SOURCE: "On My Husband," in It Seems to Me, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1954, pp. 164-72.

In the following excerpt from It Seems to Me, a collection of questions and answers from letters addressed to Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt discusses some of the personal qualities of her husband.

Do you think your husband had any premonition that he might not live to complete his last term in the White House ?

No, I do not think my husband had any premonition that he would not live to finish his term in the White House. Four years previously I think he had a feeling that any man well might not live through a third term. But, having lived through the third term, he believed, I think, that if it was right for him to run he would be able to win and he would live as long as he was...