Word: chats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even now he slept well, six or seven hours a night. But he slept best on a boat. At near-midnight after his last fireside chat he motored to the Navy Yard in Washington, sailed downriver on the yacht Potomac. Afloat, he slept till 11 a.m., and went back to the White House at noon with all his old bounce...
Shrewd, old-style Governor Clyde Roark Hoey (pronounced hooey) of North Carolina heard Negro Contralto Marian Anderson at a Raleigh concert, was so pleased that he invited her next morning to a private, half -hour chat in the executive offices. Reported Governor Hoey, refusing to consider his action unusual: "I talked to her some about her singing. She asked about affairs in the State...
...Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, was to whip up party spirit by inviting women workers to Washington to see how Government worked, pick up points for use during the campaign. One hundred were expected. The President suggested his Executive Office for an informal chat. Three weeks ago, Mrs. Roosevelt learned that the idea had met with such enthusiasm that 500 might attend, shifted the reception to the East Room of the White House...
After two days of listening to speeches on practical politics, surveying Congress, plodding on sight-seeing tours, meeting Congressmen, romping over the District of Columbia, the delegates descended on the White House. Not in the East Room, but from the South Portico, President Roosevelt delivered his informal chat, while his audience filled the White House lawn. Said the President: "I am confident that your common sense, your enthusiasm and your deep understanding of the problems of the day will go far to keep the American people on the right road in this Year of Grace 1940. Now come...
...left the White House, he left behind a chilly Administration silence. Something had changed in the relationship of Handyman Farley and Boss Roosevelt. Thereafter Jim Farley's visits to the White House were infrequent. Last July he went to Hyde Park for a long afternoon's chat with his boss. No one knew exactly what was said, but again something had changed...