Food Budgeting Quotes
This quotation illustrates a unique aspect about the FDR presidency. It was more open than any previous and most subsequent. Today, some enterprising reporter might find out that the President did not care for the food he was getting for breakfast and lunch and changes were being made. This would be an exclusive and then be echoed by the media. But Mrs. Roosevelt, not only let this type of thing “all hang out” but literally published the story herself. Although few White Houses have done this, it gave the Roosevelt White House one advantage. Since they were the first to report most stories, they could frame the issue before someone else—perhaps hostile could. And no one did this better than Eleanor Roosevelt. Mrs. Nesbitt was the White House Chef, only since she was a woman she was called the “White House Cook”.
