Eleanor and Hillary

Your article about Eleanor Roosevelt, “Before Hillary, There Was Eleanor” (by Blanche Wiesen Cook, Opinion, Jan. 17) highlighted for me the farsightedness of this great humanitarian. Her call for “indoor plumbing and toilets in every new home” certainly put her thinking ahead of her time. The question raised by one of Franklin Roosevelt’s advisers as to how “anybody would be able to tell the rich from the poor” continues to have significance today. Unfortunately, after almost 60 years, the plumbing and toilets are now inside, it is the poor who are living outside.

LEN BLOOM

San Diego