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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...
Vainly Steve Early argued, hauled out his Secret Service commission. Vainly he tried to push past the bluecoats, was pushed back in plain sight of 35 waiting newsmen, between Secretary of Treasury Henry Mogenthau and Secretary Marguerite LeHand, who were also kept back by the cops. Steve Early jerked up his knee into the Negro policeman's groin. Then, while an ambulance was called for the policeman, Mr. Early went back upstairs, called Secret Service men, who took the party to the train...
...coat was off. His tie hung low under the unbuttoned collar of his soft shirt, but he had not rolled up his sleeves. His one companion was Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, who snatched the latest "takes" from the thumping tickers, put them before the President without a word, as fast as he finished charting the latest tally. Re enjoyed...
After the President's fireside chat last May, McKay wrote to Private Secretary LeHand to advise her that the boss had committed 34 errors, including such oral slurrings as "an dinnefficiency," "mennend women," "richnd fat." McKay insists that the President must have seen his letter, since his Charlottesville speech contained only four errors or an hourly rating...
...President moved fast and consistently. In the midst of exchanging apparently casual repartee with a press conference last week, he slipped over a blue-ink-typewritten memo from Missy LeHand. announced the revival, under the 1916 National Defense Act, of a Council of National Defense-six Cabinet members and seven coordinators to organize the still shadowy effort to arm the country...