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...President was working hard-incredibly hard-at the job which has broken so many men. Daily he averaged 15 callers (on Thursday he saw 40 men, besides a special press conference); as always, he did most of the talking. To handsome Marguerite (Missy) LeHand, his private secretary, he dictated 15 to 20 letters a day. Constantly reports, documents, State papers, cables, digests, correspondence streamed over his desk. There were speeches to write, messages to plan, policies to determine. Above all, there was a world to watch, a world in which total war looked more & more like world revolution...
Replying to the petition sent to President Roosevelt ten days ago supporting his Finnish-Russian stand, Miss Margaret LeHand, secretary to the President, wrote, "the President appreciates the friendly spirit which prompted these expressions...
...regiment of Marines was kept discreetly out of sight when President Roosevelt, accompanied by Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and Private Secretary Marguerite Lehand, arrived at Quantico to board the U. S. S. Sequoia for a week-end of fishing down the Potomac. The President wanted no military display of the fighting force he had mobilized for possible service in revolutionary Cuba, no semblance of a presidential review which might be misinterpreted in Latin America. Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to arrive by army plane from Boston and join his party...
...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt set out for a 7 a. m. canter through Washington's Potomac Park to see the cherry and magnolia trees in bloom. With her rode Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, wife of the Federal Farm Board chairman, and President Roosevelt's Secretary Marguerite Lehand. Mrs. Roosevelt's horse slid on the muddy bridlepath, fell to its knees. Mrs. Roosevelt was thrown into a mud puddle. Muddied but unhurt, she remounted, rode on until...
...flat-topped desk sat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his mouth stretched wide, his eyes half closed in a vigorous grin. He was smoking a cigaret in a long ivory holder. Behind the President stood his three secretaries, Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Marvin Hunter Mclntyre, Stephen Tyree Early. Miss Marguerite Lehand, his personal secretary, sat in the window ledge. Near his elbow sat his stenographer, Grace Tully, with pad & pencil. Another stenographer, Henry Kannee, occupied one end of the desk...