“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
My Day (Primary source)
Collections of Roosevelt’s syndicated newspaper column written six days weekly from 1935-1962, offering accessible, diary-like observations on daily life, politics, civil rights, and current events that reached millions of American readers.
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