ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.

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Official Program of the Inaugural Ceremonies. Deluxe Edition, the copy of Henry Morgenthau Jr, signed by Roosevelt and Garner under their portraits. Morgenthau, whose name is in gilt on the front cover, served as Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury from 1934 to 1945.Morgenthau played a major role in the New Deal and in the financing of America's involvement the Second World War. His wartime influence increasingly extended into foreign policy, and he is infamous for proposing the Morgenthau Plan, which proposed the partition and deindustrialization of post-war Germany.The volume is an extensively illustrated ceremonial record of the inauguration, its proceedings, and principal attendees. Morgenthau is listed on page 19 as a patron of the Inaugural Ball.This is "Copy No. 1758 of the Limited De Luxe Edition Roosevelt-Garner Official Inaugural Program" and is signed as issued by Cary T. Grayson, Chairman of the General Inaugural Committee.

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