The first installment of our new series, “This I Remember: Roosevelt Family Stories,” features a heartwarming conversation between John Roosevelt Boettiger and his granddaughter, Paloma. Boettiger, a grandson of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, spent his early years in the White House and later lived with Eleanor in New York City and Hyde Park. During his chat with Paloma, Boettiger shares personal stories about getting caught playing in the White House elevators by his grandfather and Winston Churchill and finding his Grandmére (Eleanor) napping during a United Nations meeting.

John Roosevelt Boettiger is a developmental and clinical psychologist living in Northern California, and spent a career practicing, teaching and writing in those fields, primarily at Hampshire College and Amherst College (his alma mater) in Amherst, Massachusetts, as well as in Norway. He is the author of A Love in Shadow (W.W. Norton 1978), a biography of his parents, Anna Roosevelt and John Boettiger.