[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce FDR Book INSCRIBED to a secret service agent and eventual Congressional Medal of Honor winner

[Charles Agvent]

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 the front cover at the upper 
right corner with no loss. Near Fine. (#014378)        $12,500.00

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