Author: WALLACE, Henry A.
Title: Miscellaneous Recollections of the Interment Train, April 14-15, 1945
Description: Iowa City, Friends of the University of Iowa, 1974. Paperback. 4to. Stiff black wrappers. (18pp). Fine. Pristine first edition. Leslie W. Dunlap introduces this facsimile (with typescript accompanying) of an 8-page pencilled letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of agriculture, who became his second vice president in 1941, serving until 1945 when Harry S. Truman took over -- and then became his secretary of commerce. Wallace describes the funeral cortege escorting Roosevelt's body from Washington, DC to Hyde Park, New York. .

Keywords: Presidential


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