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...taught plenty of people to swim and play in the water." reminisced Trustee Roosevelt. "I remember one lady patient of large proportions. She could not get her two feet down to the bottom of the pool. I would seize one large knee [Mr. Roosevelt began an elaborate pantomime of his story] and gradually force it down until the foot hit the bottom. 'Have you got it?' I would say. 'Yes.' the lady would reply. Then I would seize the other leg, and try to get it toward the bottom. But no sooner would I let go of the first...
...small touring car in the Warm Springs pool, in the living room of his white cottage, President Roosevelt held hourly conferences on the state of the nation with his aides, advisers, visitors...
...after Mr. Moffett's visit arrived Donald Richberg and Harry Hopkins. They and Braintruster Tugwell, who had been recalled to Warm Springs for a second visit, began their session by swimming with the President in the Warm Springs pool, continued it around the presidential luncheon table. Two days later came Secretaries Ickes and Morgenthau...
...some of Georgia's better highways and pulled up before the house of old hometown friends whom they were visiting. An hour later their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Pierson of Detroit, were taking them through Warm Springs Foundation. Whom should the visiting husband meet in the glass-enclosed pool-house but the President of the U. S. taking his morning dip. "By the way," said Franklin Roosevelt, grinning up from the water, "you and Mrs. Ford are having dinner with us tonight." Thus just a year after General Hugh Johnson had heatedly announced that neither the Ford Motor...
...plan emanated from Lowell House which would have a central pool set up, into which each House would pay thirty dollars, and out of which medals for all champion teams would be bought. Kirkland, Adams, Winthrop, and Eliot subscribed tentatively, remembering that the awards for any winning squad such as football or squash would amount to approximately thirty dollars, and that, since expenditure is directly proportionate to glory, for any House to win more than two championships would be financially disustrous. But the project went down to defeat because of the insolvency of Dunster and the non-cooperation of Leverett...