Franklin D. Roosevelt 1941 Typed Letter Signed - Just 6 Days After Pearl Harbor
** JUST 6 DAYS AFTER PEARL HARBOR **
32nd President. Typed letter signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt” AS PRESIDENT, December 13, 1941, The White House Washington stationery, to The Reverend Samuel McCrea Cavert at the Federal Council of Churches in New York, in full:
I am delighted that you are proceeding to Geneva on behalf of the World Council of Churches.
In view of my own personal interest in your mission I should like to be informed of its accomplishments at some later date.
Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert was a prominent religious figure who often communicated with politicians and political figures. Cavert was one of the country's foremost ecumenical leaders and a chief architect of the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches. Documents addressed to him can be found in various archives such as those of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr.
The importance of the date of this letter cannot be overstated. THIS IS THE AMONG THE EARLIEST WHITE HOUSE LETTERS AFTER PEARL HARBOR THAT WE CAN FIND RECORD OF ON THE MARKET.
The world was a hectic place when FDR signed this letter. Just 6 days earlier, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor setting into motion the United States going to war the next day when FDR addressed a joint session of Congress, stating that December 7 would be “a date which will live in infamy.” We have located 5 other letters from December 1941 - with just one earlier than this letter, and the next closest from 5 days later. FDR certainly was signing memorandums and other official business during this time but not many letters left the White House giving the circumstances of the world in those moments.
** JUST 6 DAYS AFTER PEARL HARBOR **
32nd President. Typed letter signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt” AS PRESIDENT, December 13, 1941, The White House Washington stationery, to The Reverend Samuel McCrea Cavert at the Federal Council of Churches in New York, in full:
I am delighted that you are proceeding to Geneva on behalf of the World Council of Churches.
In view of my own personal interest in your mission I should like to be informed of its accomplishments at some later date.
Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert was a prominent religious figure who often communicated with politicians and political figures. Cavert was one of the country's foremost ecumenical leaders and a chief architect of the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches. Documents addressed to him can be found in various archives such as those of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr.
The importance of the date of this letter cannot be overstated. THIS IS THE AMONG THE EARLIEST WHITE HOUSE LETTERS AFTER PEARL HARBOR THAT WE CAN FIND RECORD OF ON THE MARKET.
The world was a hectic place when FDR signed this letter. Just 6 days earlier, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor setting into motion the United States going to war the next day when FDR addressed a joint session of Congress, stating that December 7 would be “a date which will live in infamy.” We have located 5 other letters from December 1941 - with just one earlier than this letter, and the next closest from 5 days later. FDR certainly was signing memorandums and other official business during this time but not many letters left the White House giving the circumstances of the world in those moments.
** JUST 6 DAYS AFTER PEARL HARBOR **
32nd President. Typed letter signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt” AS PRESIDENT, December 13, 1941, The White House Washington stationery, to The Reverend Samuel McCrea Cavert at the Federal Council of Churches in New York, in full:
I am delighted that you are proceeding to Geneva on behalf of the World Council of Churches.
In view of my own personal interest in your mission I should like to be informed of its accomplishments at some later date.
Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert was a prominent religious figure who often communicated with politicians and political figures. Cavert was one of the country's foremost ecumenical leaders and a chief architect of the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches. Documents addressed to him can be found in various archives such as those of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr.
The importance of the date of this letter cannot be overstated. THIS IS THE AMONG THE EARLIEST WHITE HOUSE LETTERS AFTER PEARL HARBOR THAT WE CAN FIND RECORD OF ON THE MARKET.
The world was a hectic place when FDR signed this letter. Just 6 days earlier, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor setting into motion the United States going to war the next day when FDR addressed a joint session of Congress, stating that December 7 would be “a date which will live in infamy.” We have located 5 other letters from December 1941 - with just one earlier than this letter, and the next closest from 5 days later. FDR certainly was signing memorandums and other official business during this time but not many letters left the White House giving the circumstances of the world in those moments.