Eleanor Roosevelt was a strong woman who stood by her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, through all the hard times getting to Washington. The road to Washington was very long and had many stops along the way. The night that they figured out that FDR was the new Assistant Secretary of the Navy "I stayed in New York waiting to hear what our fate would be." (Roosevelt 72) She cared about her husband and supported him but it was a very long process that she seemed to not be fully into. After discovering that her husband won, she had to figure out what her job was as his wife. Once she talked to her aunt she learned that "As the wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy my duty was first, last and all the time to the Navy itself." (Roosevelt 72) Before she was only along for the ride and to support him, but she now has duties that are very important, whether she likes them or not. With her important jobs she traveled along with all of the men on the campaign. Being a woman there, she didn’t have as much input, and "I was interested, but being the only woman was embarrassing." (Roosevelt 109) In this time period women were not looked at the same way as men, and being on the campaign she learned a lot, but it made her feel unnecessary because she is a woman. As she traveled along side of her husband, she started to act as though it just wasn’t what it used to be, and she was being dragged along on the way to the white house.