"[Mrs. Roosevelt] spoke to a group at WAVE Quarters D.  You know, she was a real human being.  She associated with people and I had a lot of respect for Mrs. Roosevelt.  Of course she was his legs and everything else.  She did things like that.  So three or four of us was standing outside the gate when her big limo came out to go back to Washington.  We were -- I don't know where we were going or anything, now, but she said to us. "Are you young ladies going to Washington?"  Well we hadn't really planned to go but when she said are you going to downtown Washing, "Yeah, yeah, we're going."  We got in her big limo and she took us to the gate of the White House, and she invited us to tea.  But I was working 4-12 and you just didn't tell the Navy that you were invited to tea by the President's wife, so I didn't get to go."

Mary Eileen Gore Rotenberry
Navy
World War II