Harry Hopkins, still gaunt from long illness, was finally back on his old six-day work week at the White House. Each day last week his familiar slouched figure could be seen entering the East Wing at 9 a.m. Shut off, even from telephone calls and intimate friends, he worked until 7 p.m., and sometimes far into the evening. His work baskets were usually filled with details of his current specialty: relations between the U.S., Russia and Britain. (He did much of the skull-work for Franklin Roosevelt's meeting with Churchill at Quebec.)
He was still...
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