ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), President . Typed letter signed ("F. D. R."), as President, to his son James Roosevelt, Aboard Presidential Special [Nevada], 13 July 1938. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, with original White House envelope . [WITH:] Typed memorandum, unsigned, from FDR to James Roosevelt, Washington, 15 July 1938. 2 pages, 4to, White House stationery, with an autograph emendation in FDR's hand .
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), President . Typed letter signed ("F. D. R."), as President, to his son James Roosevelt, Aboard Presidential Special [Nevada], 13 July 1938. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, with original White House envelope . [WITH:] Typed memorandum, unsigned, from FDR to James Roosevelt, Washington, 15 July 1938. 2 pages, 4to, White House stationery, with an autograph emendation in FDR's hand . "NO SON OF ANY PRESIDENT CAN ENGAGE IN BUSINESS...WITHOUT BECOMING LIABLE TO ATTACK BY INNUENDO" ROOSEVELT COACHES HIS SON ON HOW TO ANSWER CONFLICT OF INTEREST CHARGES. "Do take care of yourself," FDR tells his son, who was recuperating from a stomach ulcer at the Mayo Clinic. "I will miss you a lot on the trip, but if the tummy is treated 100 by you, you will be on the next trip! That is a promise. Don't try to work at Campobello. Do what I suggested--get Rabbit [White House secretary Margaret Durand] to send you mail twice a week, scribble your answer on the margin, and send it back to her to send out. Two short sentences will generally answer any known letter. Ever so much love. I will catch a fish for you." One of the things churning young Roosevelt's stomach was a harsh article in the Saturday Evening Post accusing him of using his status as First Son to line his own pockets in the insurance business. FDR, a skilled player in the contact sport of national politics, gives Jimmy some excellent advice on how to hit back: "be alternately serious and humorous" in rebutting the charges. "Be very sure to make it clear that at no time since coming to Washington have you had anything to do with helping...get business through Government sources or private sources." To those calling for Jimmy Roosevelt to release his income tax returns, he tells him to respond by saying "you would be glad to make public your own...returns for the past six years if Congressman Fish and Congressman Treadway made theirs public simultaneously. Suggest that no son of any President can engage in business...without becoming liable to attack by innuendo from those who try to hit his Father through him..." James Roosevelt founded Roosevelt and Sargent, an insurance brokerage business, in 1935. Intense criticism over conflict of interest charges forced him to quit his post as White House aide in 1938.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), President . Typed letter signed ("F. D. R."), as President, to his son James Roosevelt, Aboard Presidential Special [Nevada], 13 July 1938. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, with original White House envelope . [WITH:] Typed memorandum, unsigned, from FDR to James Roosevelt, Washington, 15 July 1938. 2 pages, 4to, White House stationery, with an autograph emendation in FDR's hand .
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), President . Typed letter signed ("F. D. R."), as President, to his son James Roosevelt, Aboard Presidential Special [Nevada], 13 July 1938. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, with original White House envelope . [WITH:] Typed memorandum, unsigned, from FDR to James Roosevelt, Washington, 15 July 1938. 2 pages, 4to, White House stationery, with an autograph emendation in FDR's hand . "NO SON OF ANY PRESIDENT CAN ENGAGE IN BUSINESS...WITHOUT BECOMING LIABLE TO ATTACK BY INNUENDO" ROOSEVELT COACHES HIS SON ON HOW TO ANSWER CONFLICT OF INTEREST CHARGES. "Do take care of yourself," FDR tells his son, who was recuperating from a stomach ulcer at the Mayo Clinic. "I will miss you a lot on the trip, but if the tummy is treated 100 by you, you will be on the next trip! That is a promise. Don't try to work at Campobello. Do what I suggested--get Rabbit [White House secretary Margaret Durand] to send you mail twice a week, scribble your answer on the margin, and send it back to her to send out. Two short sentences will generally answer any known letter. Ever so much love. I will catch a fish for you." One of the things churning young Roosevelt's stomach was a harsh article in the Saturday Evening Post accusing him of using his status as First Son to line his own pockets in the insurance business. FDR, a skilled player in the contact sport of national politics, gives Jimmy some excellent advice on how to hit back: "be alternately serious and humorous" in rebutting the charges. "Be very sure to make it clear that at no time since coming to Washington have you had anything to do with helping...get business through Government sources or private sources." To those calling for Jimmy Roosevelt to release his income tax returns, he tells him to respond by saying "you would be glad to make public your own...returns for the past six years if Congressman Fish and Congressman Treadway made theirs public simultaneously. Suggest that no son of any President can engage in business...without becoming liable to attack by innuendo from those who try to hit his Father through him..." James Roosevelt founded Roosevelt and Sargent, an insurance brokerage business, in 1935. Intense criticism over conflict of interest charges forced him to quit his post as White House aide in 1938.
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