According to this rumor, Eleanor Roosevelt once said that U.S. Marines have 'the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals' (or words to that effect).
I wondered what she thought about my enlisting in the navy. Did she hold me in the same low regard that so much of society held for the American sailor? Perhaps she had heard the comment President Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor, had made about sailors:"The cleanest bodies and dirtiest minds in the world."
And finally, we found definitive proof that the quotation existed before 1945. In October 1942, a group of Marine sergeants and corporals commissioned during World War II wrote ato the editor of the Wisconsin State Journal. In it, they included the following observation: Since most examples of the Roosevelt quote have been dated to 1945, and we know for sure she didn't say it for the first time then, it does give cause to doubt the veracity of other aspects of that citation, including the attribution to Roosevelt.
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