ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. - VAN PAASSEN, Pierre.

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The Time is Now! First edition, inscribed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to his principal private secretary Grace Tully: "For Grace from FDR, The White House, July 10 1941".The inscription is evocative, presenting, six months before Pearl Harbor, a book which focused on the threat that Nazi Germany presented to the United States. It called on America to prevent further Nazi encroachment into other areas by seizing Dakar, the Azores, Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, consolidate her navy with the British fleet, and send an expeditionary force to India. The book was a best-seller, and was afterwards seen as prophetic.The use of female secretaries broke with tradition, with all prior presidential secretaries men. Tully's tenure dated from his 1928 campaign for governor of New York, and he brought her into the White House on his election in 1932. Tully "occupied a front row seat at momentous events as secretary and friend to the man she called 'the Boss'. To her, he had dictated letters to kings and to generals, manuscripts for his radio fireside chats and such historical speeches as the one he delivered to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, asking for a declaration of war against Japan" (New York Times obituary, 16 June 1984). Tully recorded in her memoir "Franklin Delano Roosevelt was my boss for nearly seventeen years. In that span of time - final years for him - I watched him emerge from the twilight zone of poliomyelitis convalescence to move from one political stage to another one, until

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