Eleanor Roosevelt receives flowers, Japan, 1953

ID: 348 ~ Source: "[Eleanor Roosevelt in Japan, 1953.]" Image. From Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum: 55139(1). http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=2564 (accessed December 15, 2017). ~ Date: May 1953
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Eleanor Roosevelt smiles as she accepts flowers during her cultural exchange visit to Japan in 1953.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt
"On Monday morning I was invited to meet with a group of about 20 members of the political leaders of the Diet. The Committee seemed rather pleased by this and said it was an unusual thing for them to do. I was not asked to make a speech but I…