THE PRESIDENCY
The Roosevelt Week
The 7th regiment of Marines was kept discreetly out of sight when President Roosevelt, accompanied by Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and Private Secretary Marguerite Lehand, arrived at Quantico to board the U. S. S. Sequoia for a week-end of fishing down the Potomac. The President wanted no military display of the fighting force he had mobilized for possible service in revolutionary Cuba, no semblance of a presidential review which might be misinterpreted in Latin America. Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to...
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