Eleanor supports FDR to be President

Eleanor stated in her autobiography This I Remember: "I did not desire for my husband to hold the office of president. But I understood that when a man chose to serve in the public sector and was unquestionably qualified to do so, it was impossible to stop him. I was acting purely selfishly, and I never told him how I felt about it."

On the Democratic ticket, Franklin ran unsuccessfully for vice president in 1920. Eleanor's interest in politics grew at this time, in part. After all, she decided to support her husband's political career when he contracted polio in 1921 and partly because she wanted to work for significant causes. She joined the Women's Trade Union League and got involved in the Democratic Party of New York. She started reading the Congressional Record and gaining evaluation skills while serving on the League of Women Voters' Legislative Affairs Committee.

Eleanor discovered a chance to juggle the duties of a political hostess with her expanding profession and personal freedom when Franklin was elected governor of New York in 1929. She continued to commute between Albany and New York City every week while teaching at Todhunter, a ladies' school in Manhattan that she and two friends had bought.