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...says, noting that his name comes from the Hebrew darshan—an itinerant preacher who would go from town to town to teach. Dershowitz also bears in his professorial title the name of Felix Frankfurter—a law-school professor who was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, to serve on the Supreme Court and was once referred to by the Saturday Evening Post as “the most single influential person in the country...
...epicenter of secrecy and action: the Map Room. On the White House ground floor--dim, guarded, with no carpets that could tangle the wheels of F.D.R.'s wheelchair--the Map Room had been the trophy room, a small area for official gifts to the First Couple. Roosevelt had ordered the secure chamber after admiring Winston Churchill's portable map ensemble, brought to the White House when he first visited, just after Pearl Harbor. The room would become the haven for Roosevelt and Churchill and key aides throughout the four war years, a repository of information and a place where policy...
...Cabin fever?" pondered Elsey recently, back in the room to recount his memories. "Never. It was the most exciting place in the world." And also the most secure. Elsey and the handful of other aides who were on duty around the clock wheeled Roosevelt because his personal valet was not allowed in the room. "One glance at the map showing the convoys headed for the African coast could tell the story," says Elsey, also recalling when Eleanor Roosevelt brought China's Mme. Chiang Kai-shek unannounced into the Map Room, causing great consternation. It never happened again...
...diaries were allowed. No photographs, no recordings. Expendable papers were burned daily. So George Elsey's memory has become one of the great ledgers of America's wartime history. Elsey saw Roosevelt's original fervor for his maps and battle reports waste away with his health. Elsey saved a couple of papers with the President's signature; firm, strong in 1942, quaky and feeble by 1945. "When Churchill entered the room, he seemed to fill it," says Elsey. "His reputation, the aura that preceded him, was so great. We were in awe." Captain Ogden Kniffin, Elsey's Army counterpart, made...
...Before Roosevelt left for Warm Springs, Ga., in March 1945, he asked for a map projecting the sectors in Europe for the first of May. Roosevelt died before he saw it. "The last map" was returned to the White House, and Elsey took it over, saving it from destruction. A few years ago he gave it back to the White House, and today it hangs over the mantel in the Map Room, now stately and elegant with its thick carpets and polished Chippendale furniture. Today's Presidents plan their wars in the Situation Room, built in the West Wing during...