Still, he never entirely trusted Roosevelt, whom he regarded as too liberal and manipulative, and he hated Eleanor Roosevelt and her associations with black people and other left-wingers. When Hoover was asked in later years why he never married, he would answer, “Because God had made a woman like Eleanor Roosevelt.” When Roosevelt died, Hoover, for once, was caught unprepared, for he had no link to the Vice-President. He searched his staff until he found a man named Morris Chiles III, the son of an old friend of Truman’s. Hoover dispatched him to see the new President.
