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Start: Eleanor, I must say this—once, to...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Sunrise at Campobello

Dore Schary

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Two, Scene 1
Time & Place
The Roosevelt home in New York. May 1922.
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Start: Eleanor, I must say this—once, to someone. Those first few days at Campobello, when this started, I had despair—deep, sick despair.

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End: Eleanor, it’s a hard way to learn humility—but I’ve been learning by crawling. I know what is meant—you must learn to crawl before you can walk.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Dore Schary, Sunrise at Campobello, Signet, 1960, pp. 59-60.

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