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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Typed Letter Signed and Document Signed as Assistant Navy Secretary, Both Regarding the Naval Training ... (Total: 2 Items)
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Typed Letter Signed and Document Signed as Assistant Navy Secretary, Both Regarding the Naval Training Cruise Program.-DS: 1916. Washington D.C. One page. 13" x 9", partially printed document with ship vignette, completed in manuscript.
-TLS: January 18, 1917. Washington D.C. One page. 8" x 10.25", Navy Department letterhead.
-Document mounted to cards, damage at top corners, toning. Letterhead with fold weakness, toning and soiling.
The document states that Joseph M. Costello has successfully completed the prescribed course of instruction aboard the U.S.S. Virginia. It is signed by Roosevelt who added "Acting" before the printed word "Secretary." The typed letter is to Mr. Elmendorf L. Carr and reads: "It is the policy to enroll for the Civilian Training Cruise only men who could be of general or special use to the Navy in time of war and whose value would be increased by taking this training./ The details of the Civilian Training Cruise have not yet been drawn up. Most of the training however will be in camps where there is at present a Navy Chaplain./ Please give your father my best regards./ Very sincerely yours..." The Naval Training Cruise for Civilians was one of FDR's pet projects in the years leading up to the U.S. involvement in World War I. It was not, however, very popular with Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels who dubbed it the "John Paul Jones Cruise."
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2008 December Signature Collection of the FDR Museum Auction, Part 2 #6010 (go to Auction Home page)
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