No doubt EN is a tool. Cruise or no cruise, IMO she was acquainted with MD. Toots may have used EN’s inner circle (Bank of Hawaii President?) to get Barry into Occidental.
The only thing Eleanor Nordyke has been good for is to suggest that she gave birth to her twins in the same hospital as Stanley Ann Dunham gave birth to zero. Someone needs to introduce her to Neil Abercrombie, maybe between them both they will be able to find that elusive record of birth...and by that, I mean a record that SHOWS STANLEY ANN DUNHAM AS THE MOTHER.