Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand was a private secretary to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt for 21 years. According to LeHand's biographer Kathryn Smith in The Gatekeeper, she eventually functione
LeHand c. 1935
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933
Despite LeHand's close relationship with Franklin, she and his wife Eleanor (pictured) remained on good terms.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have se
Campaign portrait, 1944
A young, unbreeched Roosevelt in 1884, aged 2
Eleanor and Franklin with their first two children, 1908