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While Phase II continues, there are others anxious to get themselves on record. Henry Morgenthau Jr., Dutchess County neighbor of F.D.R., is gathering material for a book. Also in the works: memoirs of Cordell Hull, and of the late Harry Hopkins, both scheduled for 1947. Jim Farley, who in 1938 got $68,500 for a not-too-revealing autobiography, is known to have a more critical book in mind, but is in no hurry; he wants to see what others tell first. So does Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, who says "I think I will just wait." The late President himself, according...
...there are always people who ask about "Dutchess Hotspur." "That," says Palmer, "is not my department...
...With No Regret." A quarter of an hour later the official ceremonies marking the first anniversary of F.D.R.'s death began on the broad front porch of the Big House. Dutchess County youngsters perched in a tall tree; servants peeked from the house windows; Falla scuttled out and snuggled at Harry Truman's feet...
Among the dozen or more places they will visit will be a big stone-and-stucco house set in the rolling, rocky hills of New York's Dutchess County, overlooking the Hudson River valley. There the first act of the envoys will probably be the placing of flowers on a grave in the center of a hedge-boxed rose garden...
...blunt Jim Forrestal has learned the ins & outs of Washington, since he arrived there five years ago, a quietly cynical man who had been invited by Franklin Roosevelt to become one of the six presidential assistants "with a passion for anonymity." Like F.D.R., he was born and raised in Dutchess County. And he was a Democrat. Right there the likeness ended. He had worked part of his way through Princeton, where his nose was broken in a boxing bout, worked for the Tobacco Products Corp. and sold bonds for Dillon, Read & Co. He had served in the Navy from...