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While he was board chairman of the Union Pacific, Harriman went to Washington as one of Franklin Roosevelt's "tame millionaires" to help out in NRA. His old friend Harry Hopkins-whom he had met at a Long Island croquet party in pre-New-Deal days-eventually pulled him into the White House vortex. Harriman's first big job for F.D.R. was to work out the provisions of Lend-Lease aid to Britain. His second assignment was to get aid to Russia, and in 1943 he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Harriman was never dazzled by the Communist...
Private Life: Was divorced by his first wife after 14 years of marriage, in 1929; two daughters. Remarried in 1930. Relaxation: bridge, canasta, croquet, a collection of Van Goghs, Renoirs, Picassos, Gauguins, Winston Churchills...
...take a workout south toward New London which piles up more than eight miles. At 8:45 a.m., they breakfast. Fifteen minutes later, those that have exams write them under the eye of a proctor. If an oarsman has no scholastic obligation, he can sleep or dabble around the croquet and horseshoe courts. These are the only sports other than rowing permitted at Red Top because they are the only athletic diversions not likely to injure the participant...
...Croquet matches...
While he lived in Washington, Rhee spent most of his leisure time outdoors. He took great pleasure in mowing his lawn, spent many a Sunday afternoon in a rented rowboat fishing the Potomac. Aside from an occasional game of tennis with his wife, his only active sport was croquet, also a favorite game of former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who had so stubbornly ignored the claims of Rhee's government. One afternoon in 1943 Rhee interrupted a croquet game with some friends to tune in a broadcast of the Cairo Conference communique. He listened quietly to the communique...