Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Halsted (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975) was an American writer who worked as a newspaper editor and in public relations.

[1] She worked with her second husband Clarence John Boettiger at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, serving as editor of the women's pages for several years.

[4] After her husband joined the Army, and at her ailing father's request, Anna moved into the White House with her five-year-old son in 1944.

Among other duties, she often served as hostess of the White House due to her mother's preference for devoting her time to other political activities and worthy causes.

She petitioned to be included in the Yalta Conference as his aide-de-camp, believing that she could best protect her father, seeing to it that he followed the doctor's orders of diet and rest.

[6] Anna Boettiger was a witness to many historic moments, but she also carried the burden of dealing with some of the most intimate and painful decisions of her parents during their unconventional marriage.

[6] After Roosevelt's death in April 1945, William Randolph Hearst no longer had reason to favor Boettiger and they had a falling out.

Boettiger left the Seattle Post Intelligencer and he and Anna bought a weekly newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona.

When they returned to the United States, Anna immersed herself in humanitarian work and contributed to the legacy of both her parents.

[6] In October 1963, Anna was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women.

Anna continued to be active in most of the same organizations until her death from throat cancer on December 1, 1975, aged 69, at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York.