all-male dinner and invited most Washington officials and visiting politicos. So Eleanor held the Gridiron Widows Dinner for all the women reporters, cabinet wives, and women bureaucrats. Eleanor took special interest into increasing women's role in the U.S. government and in the Democratic Party. She often invited the few females who held an office to the White House. Seeing the first woman alternate chosen for the Resolutions Committee at the 1936 Democratic co!
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