“Mrs. Roosevelt drove her colleagues mercilessly,” writes The New York Times. “There were fourteen, sixteen hour days and some delegates may have secretly whispered the prayer ascribed to President Roosevelt: ‘O Lord, make Eleanor tired!’" After the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "something happened that never happened in the United Nations before or since. The delegates rose to give a standing ovation to a single delegate, a shy, elderly lady with a rather formal demeanor but a very warm smile. Her name, of course, was Eleanor Roosevelt."
