RTL's birth

[Linda Anderson]

Gene, while I am well aware of the harm that "speculation and unfounded rumors" can do to a person's life, I don't look at questioning whether Lincoln and Mary had a shotgun wedding as denigrating either one of them at all, maybe because they lived so long ago and it might help explain why Lincoln married Mary.

Have you read An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park by Eleanor and Franklin's son Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough? Elliott is very frank about the difficulties in his parents' marriage. Can you imagine Robert Lincoln writing such a book about his parents' marriage? Do you think a book like Elliott's shouldn't have been written or that the invasion of privacy is worth it because it gives greater insight into Eleanor and Franklin's lives?