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...beside the fireplace in the cozy, cluttered living room of the cottage at Warm Springs-the Little White House-while his secretary, stooped, lanky William Hassett, helped him sort through the mail. At one end of the room his cousins Laura Delano and Margaret Suckley sat chatting. The warm Georgia sun climbed over Pine Mountain. It was April...
There were a lot of things to sign-several State Department nominations, some postmasters' appointments, some citations for the Legion of Merit, the bill to extend the life of the Commodity Credit Corp. When he got to the bill, Franklin Roosevelt grinned at Bill Hassett, spoke the words that always made his secretary smile back: ".Here's where I make...
Presidential Secretary Steve Early and a little group of White House employes and pressroom regulars clustered in the President's office one noon last week. Mr. Roosevelt buzzed for Assistant Secretary William D. Hassett. Lank, grey, stooped Bill Hassett, 64, got a little flustered, for the President abruptly announced that this was a court-martial; that he, Bill, had been accused of using some very bad language and the group was gathered to see how good a swearer he really was. Forthwith joke-loving Franklin Roosevelt handed Bill Hassett a commission as full presidential secretary, to succeed the late...
...Bill Hassett is a Washington institution. Born in Northfield, Vt., he started his Washington newspaper career in 1909, worked decades as a newspaperman before shifting to a job with NRA and on to the White House. A kindly, gregarious, infallibly obliging gentleman of the old school, Bill Hassett rather likes being called a Victorian. He is deeply versed in English and American history and literature, lives in comfortably Victorian bachelor diggings on Pennsylvania Avenue, only five blocks from the White House...
...recent years Secretary Hassett has subbed frequently for Steve Early as press secretary, especially on the grueling train trips which Early dislikes. But his prime value to the President has been as all-round literary choreman, helping compose some of the most felicitous of Presidential letters, touching up the Presidential speeches and supplying apt quotations and historical facts. One of his prized possessions is an autographed photograph of the President inscribed: "To Bill Hassett −a rare combination of Roget, Bartlett and Buckle...