ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.

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On Our Way. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the 32nd President on the front free endpaper, "For Bertha H. Reynolds Merry Christmas from Franklin D. Roosevelt 1934". In On Our Way, Roosevelt assesses the state of the nation and defends the New Deal programme.Bertha Hurwitz Reynolds (1903-1991) joined the White House secretarial staff in 1934, remaining throughout Roosevelt's presidency and subsequently serving Truman and Eisenhower. Steve North speculated that she may have been the longest-serving Jewish White House staffer.

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