Based on Daisy’s diary, her relationship with FDR might reach a turning
point one day in September 1935. That day FDR took Daisy for a long drive
through the winding beautiful country road along Hudson River, stopping at the
peak that Daisy had named Our Hill.
Nobody knows or will ever know what happened in the car parked on the
hilltop that afternoon, but, I think, the movie takes advantage of it, making a
scene that makes the movie an R rating (children under 17 require accompanying
adult). The exchanged letters and her diaries
became more intimate. FDR called it the
beginning of “a voyage” 3 years later.
Daisy clipped a poem (Eros—god of love in Greek mythology) from the
newspaper and pasted in her diary that day.
That same day FDR tried to persuade Daisy to take a train across the country to
dedicate Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam, nears Las Vegas). Daisy reluctantly turned him down. But, then she wrote FDR a letter, saying,
“Do you realize the amount of will-power that was necessary
to refuse a certain invitation this past week? A slightly righteous feeling, I find, give no satisfaction whatever — only
irritation! . . . After much deep thought, I have come to the very definite
conclusion that OUR HILL is, quite without exception, the nicest Hill in
Dutchess County! The only problem remaining is as to how it should be
spelled. Just plain OUR-HILL, or
OURHILL, or Owahill, or even OW-WA-HILL!”
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