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Westbrook Pegler, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the FBI

The conservative newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler was notorious for his enmity towards Eleanor Roosevelt, but according to previous scholarship she dismissed his criticism as insignificant. Scholars have depicted Roosevelt as a staunch champion of free speech rights and a strident critic of the FBI's intrusion into domestic politics. In late 1942, however, she asked the FBI to launch a wartime sedition investigation that aimed to link Pegler to the fascist enemy. This was six months after she had contemplated proposing a joint conference with him to consider the problem of union abuses. These overlooked episodes contradict the standard depiction of Roosevelt's response to Pegler and are a reminder of the news media's central role during World War II in efforts to support or attack the growing power of organized labor.