Roosevelt (109 page)

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Roosevelt’s “secret” war-plant inspection tour:
(Above)
Addressing workers at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, September 23, 1942. Henry J. Kaiser is in the back seat.
(Below)
Inspecting bomber production at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation, Long Beach, California, September 25, 1942

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John Nance Garner visiting Roosevelt aboard the President’s inspection-tour train, Uvalde, Texas, September 27, 1942

Lunch in the field: Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, President Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Maj. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., Rabat, Morocco, January 21, 1943

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Forced handshake: Generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle with Roosevelt and

Churchill, Casablanca, January 24,1943

United States and British military leaders discussing strategy at Casablanca: Adm. Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff; Lt. Gen. H. H. Arnold, Air Force Chief; Brig. Gen. John R. Deane, U.S. member of secretariat; Brig. Vivian Dykes, British member of secretariat; Brig. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer, member of War Plans Division; Lt. Gen. Hastings L. Ismay, Chief Staff Officer to Minister of Defence; Vice Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Director of Combined Operations; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord; Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff; and Field Marshal Sir John Dill, chief of the British Mission, Washington

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

Roosevelt, en route home from Casablanca, celebrating his 61st birthday aloft, with Adm. William D. Leahy, Harry Hopkins, and Capt. Howard M. Cone, commander of the Boeing Clipper, January 30, 1943

The President with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang, at the Cairo Conference, November 25, 1943

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

Roosevelt, on the way to the Teheran Conference, in Sicily with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, December 8, 1943

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At the Teheran Conference: Harry Hopkins,

Stalin’s translator, Marshal Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, K.Y. Vorishilov

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Senator James F. Byrnes, and Senator Alben W. Barkley welcome Roosevelt back from Teheran, Washington, D.C., December 17, 1943

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Pacific strategy conference, Honolulu: the President with Gen. Douglas MacArthur and

Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, July 27, 1944