Her living room. The alcove across the room with two chairs and the table is the location where an aging but powerful Eleanor met with a young and respectful John Kennedy in August of 1960. She finally agreed to endorse him, with the condition that he would become much stronger on civil rights. Kennedy proposed the Civil Rights Act in 1963 and Lyndon Johnson was able to persuade Congress to pass it in 1964. In this very modest and unassuming room, the course of the country was changed.