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Embarking at Annapolis on the Sequoia, the President was accompanied by Senator Robinson, Postmaster General Farley, Speaker Byrns, Vice President Garner. After an afternoon's fishing in the Bay they went ashore at Jefferson Islands, later to find almost every good Democrat in the District of Columbia on hand for an old fashioned political get-together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Clubjellows | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

What balm was mutually poured on hurt wounds, what pledges of goodwill were exchanged during that happy Sunday, no one present cared to say. Sunday evening when the Sequoia docked at Annapolis, the President had nothing to say. Neither had Vice President Garner nor "General" Farley. Several hours later other members of the party got back to Washington, content but uncommunicative. One guest, breaking the golden silence on condition that he remain anonymous, confided that he had seen Secretary Ickes and Senator Tydings, arm-in-arm, laughing and jesting convivially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Clubjellows | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...Boarding a train one night Franklin Roosevelt was whisked to New London. There on the Thames, aboard the Sequoia, he entertained his old friend Felix Frankfurter. To the Presidential ear the Harvard professor confided that he had been asked to furnish a list of important works that he had never read. Dr. Frankfurter's list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Personal Problem | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...rewriting the Constitution. While the country stewed over his provocative generalities, the No. 1 New Dealer who now wants to deal again, drove to the Washington Navy Yard, waved a cheery good-by to friends ashore, sailed down the Potomac for a weekend's rest on the Sequoia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Dead Deal? | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...With all his pressing program the President found time to entertain guests, at the White House, Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago, Governor & Mrs. Lehman of New York, disabled veterans (at their annual garden party); on the Sequoia cruising in the Potomac, Judge Samuel Rosemann, who was his counsel when he was Governor of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Winter's End | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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