Considering his autobiography came out in 1979 at the close of the Carter years it's hard to imagine he had any serious agenda at that point or a need to embellish, to discredit a long dead president. He had long since retired to painting his favorite place - the carribean islands and people.

Born in Berkeley, CA in 1907. Eggleston graduated from UC. He was editor of LIFE magazine (pre-Henry Luce) when it delivered political humor and cartoons, later of Scribner’s Commentator while living in NYC. After serving in WWII, he contributed to and edited Life magazine (Henry Luce version news weekly). He died in Sarasota, FL on July 7, 1990.

Eggleston's book and words have been buried by folks who have perpetuated the FDR mythology - namely the entire leftist media. His words are only relevant to historians who want to read something besides sugar-coated junkfood, socialist glorifying, FDR biographies.

If more folks knew what FDR did - and it is documented - then they would be forced to re-evaluate the Nixon Presidency. Nixon resigned for doing things FDR did boldly as if it were his god-given right to use the FBI and IRS to hound anti-war folks. Naturally today's anti-war folks don't want to know that FDR already wrote the 'Socialist Guidebook to Presidential Dictatorship' that Bush is just barely following.

I understand if it doesn't fit in with your worldview - it's much easier to pretend it never happened and Eggleston's biography doesn't exist.

But it does.