Word: newnan
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Southern Pines. The President's staging was expert. His train left Washington in midafternoon, arrived in warm, pine-fragrant Georgia the next morning. He motored 40 miles from Newnan to Warm Springs under a cobalt sky, talked happily for a half-hour with Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, his secretary for 21 years, now slowly recovering from acute neuritis [at the Foundation]. He drank his favorite old-fashioneds at a cocktail party given by Warm Springs Trustee Leighton Goldie McCarthy, 71-year-old Canadian Minister to the U.S., and went to his annual Warm Springs turkey dinner, twice postponed...
...reporters that the President "might leave" for Washington the next afternoon. This timing caught the lead in all Sunday morning papers, was enough to shake Japanese nerves. After lunch, with only a half-hour's swim in the pool (his favorite single relaxation), the President drove back to Newnan, his face grave. He went without the usual gay hand-waving to the crowds of back-country farmers, out to see the caravan whoosh past...