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Marguerite LeHand

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LeHand Home Movies: Missy LeHand and The Roosevelts

 

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FDR's Female Chief-of-Staff

 

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Marguerite LeHand

 

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LeHand Home Movies: Campobello

 

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Marguerite LeHand (Summary)

Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand was private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) for 21 years. According to LeHand's biographer, Kathryn Smith, in "The Gatekeeper," she eventually functioned as White House chief of staff, the only woman in American history to do so.