[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Signed FDR: Log of the President's Inspection Trip & Cruise on Board U.S.S. Potomac, 1941

[Charles Agvent]

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ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano. LOG OF THE PRESIDENT'S INSPECTION TRIP
AND  CRUISE  ON  BOARD  U. S. S. POTOMAC. 19 MARCH  -  1  APRIL  1941.
[Washington]:  [Government  Printing  Office] [1941].  First  Edition.
Quarto  (8-1/2" x 11") in original stapled blue wraps with crossed fly
rods  over "THE LOG" in black on the front cover; [10], 20, [2] pages.
Illustrated  with  a photographic frontispiece of  robust-looking  and
standing  (though  holding the arm of Major General Edwin Watson  next
to  him) FDR and company on board at Port Everglades, Florida.  Others
in  the photograph are Harry Hopkins, Attorney General Robert Jackson,
Secretary  Harold  Ickes, and the President's physician  Rear  Admiral
Ross  McIntire.  INSCRIBED  and SIGNED by the President on  the  title
page  to  a  secret  service  agent  onboard:  "For  Mike  Reilly/from
Franklin   D.  Roosevelt."  According  to   the  text,  Roosevelt  had
previously  instructed  his Naval Aide, Captain Daniel  Callaghan,  to
have  the  Potomac, FDR's "floating White House," available  for  this
cruise,  but  Callaghan had received orders "directing him  to  assume
command  of  the  heavy  cruiser   San  Francisco  at  Pearl  Harbor."
Callaghan  and the San Francisco survived the bombing of Pearl  Harbor
later  that  year,  but a year later the  promoted  Admiral  Callaghan
would  lose his life in November of 1942 in Guadalcanal on the  bridge
of  the  San  Francisco in a ferocious battle with the  Japanese.  The
crippled  ship  survived,  and  Callaghan  was  awarded  a  posthumous
Congressional  Medal  of  Honor.  This  fragile  piece  was  certainly
limited  to a very few copies, likely no more than a dozen. Small tear
to  front  cover  at  upper  right corner  with  no  loss.  Near  Fine
                                                             $12,500.00

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