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...President was wheeled out on the porch by Valet Arthur Prettyman. Mr. Roosevelt remarked playfully that on the basis of partial returns it appeared that returns were partial to Hyde Park. In high good humor, grinning at the battery of photographers, he noted several children in the branches of one of the trees, and recalled how he had climbed the very same tree as a child to escape discipline. From that tree, he said, he saw his first torchlight parade from the village, at the time of Cleveland's election in 1892. "I got out of bed to come...
...across two seats from which the backs had been removed. A green curtain hung about the improvised bed. The plane's remaining 26 bucket seats were for Harry Hopkins and Admiral Leahy, for the President's naval and military aides, his physician, a masseur, and his valet, Prettyman. Also taken along were a corps of six Filipino cooks from the Presidential yacht Potomac...
Leaving his office late (often at 6 instead of the peacetime 5 p.m.), the President rarely stops now for a swim. His personal wants are attended by Prettyman, a retired Negro sergeant who combines the courtesy of his race with the discipline of an old Army man, and Caesar, a strapping Filipino. After dinner (a few friends), the President may have a movie shown (Army and Navy films have priority), read reports or an occasional mystery story, or dictate to handsome Grace Tully or pretty Dorothy Jones Brady until bedtime. He usually gets to bed-except when Churchill is visiting...
...President came in five minutes before the broadcast, on his small rubber-tired wheel chair, pushed by George Fields, assistant to Prettyman, the President's valet. Mr. Roosevelt, in a dark blue serge suit, a black bow tie, was in high good humor. In the room's warmth he mopped his big, tanned face from time to time with a large white handkerchief...
...important legal post of Chief of Counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue-whose legal policies toward taxes and taxpayers have lately been increasingly stiffened and dominated by onetime Law Professor Herman Oliphant. Clarence Miles Charest, who held it in 1933, moved out to make room for Elijah Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter, the job went to Morrison Shafroth of Denver, whose father, John Franklin Shafroth, was Governor of Colorado twice, Senator from...