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[Grace Tully], along with Marguerite A. LeHand, served as personal secretary to [Franklin D. Roosevelt] during the Depression and World War II. Tully worked for Roosevelt for four years in Albany while he served as governor of New York and moved to the nation's capital when he took office as president. It was Tully who took Roosevelt's dictation after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 for his speech describing Japan's secret attack as a \"day of infamy.\" After Tully died, her relatives kept the papers until they were sold at a 2000 auction for $3.5 million to Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in New York City. Two years later, Conrad Black, chief executive of Hollinger International, purchased the collection for $8 million. Hollinger's successor, the Chicago-Sun Times Media Group, planned to sell it again in 2004 but was stopped when the National Archives determined some of the documents belonged to the Roosevelt library under the terms of the late president's will.

Dictating to his secretary and sometimes-paramour, Grace Tully, at the White House on the evening of Dec. 7 as the scale of the disaster became more apparent with every snippet of incoming news, FDR started out his speech by calling it \"a date which will live in world history.\" As soon as Tully typed up the 500 words that would take him only six minutes to deliver, [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] took a pencil to it. No editor would have treated it as brutally. FDR literally chopped his first draft to pieces, transforming prosaic dictated verbiage into powerful, declarative lines that still resonate six decades later. Like a reporter on deadline, he updated the speech as word arrived that the Japanese also were attacking Guam, the Philippines, Wake Island, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Midway Island. Banging the tocsin of war, he said, \"Our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.\"

[Grace Tully], along with Marguerite A. LeHand, served as personal secretary to [Franklin D. Roosevelt] during the Depression and World War II. Tully worked for Roosevelt for four years in Albany while he served as governor of New York and moved to the nation's capital when he took office as president. It was Tully who took Roosevelt's dictation after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 for his speech describing Japan's secret attack as a \"day of infamy.\" After Tully died, her relatives kept the papers until they were sold at a 2000 auction for $3.5 million to Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in New York City. Two years later, Conrad Black, chief executive of Hollinger International, purchased the collection for $8 million. Hollinger's successor, the Chicago-Sun Times Media Group, planned to sell it again in 2004 but was stopped when the National Archives determined some of the documents belonged to the Roosevelt library under the terms of the late president's will.

Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com From left, Eva Grein, Grace Gannon and Grace Tully of the F.S. Dance Company in Wheaton participate in the lighted holiday parade, which kicked off the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration on Friday night in downtown Wheaton. Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com From left, Eva Grein, Grace Gannon and Grace Tully of the F.S. Dance Company in Wheaton participate in the lighted holiday parade, which kicked off the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration on Friday night in downtown Wheaton. From left, Eva Grein, Grace Gannon and Grace Tully of the F.S. Dance Company in Wheaton, participate in the lighted holiday parade, which kicked off the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration in downtown Wheaton. Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com From left, Eva Grein, Grace Gannon and Grace Tully of the F.S. Dance Company in Wheaton participate in the lighted holiday parade, which kicked off the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration on Friday night in downtown Wheaton. From left, Eva Grein, Grace Gannon and Grace Tully of the F.S.

Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com From left, Eva Grein, Grace Gannon and Grace Tully of the F.S. Dance Company in Wheaton participate in the lighted holiday parade, which kicked off the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration on Friday night in downtown Wheaton. Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com From left, Eva Grein, Grace Gannon and Grace Tully of the F.S. Dance Company in Wheaton participate in the lighted holiday parade, which kicked off the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration on Friday night in downtown Wheaton. From left, Eva Grein, Grace Gannon and Grace Tully of the F.S. Dance Company in Wheaton, participate in the lighted holiday parade, which kicked off the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration in downtown Wheaton. Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com From left, Eva Grein, Grace Gannon and Grace Tully of the F.S. Dance Company in Wheaton participate in the lighted holiday parade, which kicked off the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration on Friday night in downtown Wheaton. From left, Eva Grein, Grace Gannon and Grace Tully of the F.S. Dance Company in Wheaton, participate in the lighted holiday parade, which kicked off the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration in downtown Wheaton.Hector Castrejon promotes Wheaton Boy Scout Troop 35's wreath sale Friday night as he walks in the lighted holiday parade that was part of the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration in downtown Wheaton. Hector Castrejon promotes Wheaton Boy Scout Troop 35's wreath sale as he walks in the lighted holiday parade. It which kicked off the Dickens of a Christmas Celebration in downtown Wheaton.

Ada GRAY, (nee Harris) - Of Guelph, passed away peacefully, at Twin Oaks of Maryhill, on Monday, August 11, 2008, in her 95th year. Beloved wife of the late William Gray (1995). Loved mother of Bill (Marlene) Gray. Loving grandmother of Robert. Predeceased by brothers, Sam, Jock and Derby Harris and sister, Grace Tully.

Ada GRAY, (nee Harris) - Of Guelph, passed away peacefully, at Twin Oaks of Maryhill, on Monday, August 11, 2008, in her 95th year. Beloved wife of the late William Gray (1995). Loved mother of Bill (Marlene) Gray. Loving grandmother of Robert. Predeceased by brothers, Sam, Jock and Derby Harris and sister, Grace Tully.

\"I can't see any use in everybody in Europe going busted and having communism run riot,\" [Joseph P. Kennedy] wrote to Marguerite LeHand, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal secretary. \"My own belief is that the economics of Germany would have taken care of Hitler long ago before this if he didn't have a chance to wave that flag every once in a while.\" When Roosevelt solicited the advice about [George C. Marshall] from Gen. John J. Pershing, who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, \"he's essentially headhunting, so when the time is necessary he has access to this guy,\" Mr. [Robert W. Clark] said. \"A chit to Harry Hopkins about public works programs shows the interconnectiveness of everything he's doing: using bales of cotton to make overalls, which would support farm prices, which would put money in people's pockets and improve the economy.\" In a handwritten letter from 1933, Mussolini expressed admiration for Roosevelt and hope that they might meet to \"discuss the outstanding world problems in which the United States and Italy are mutually interested.\" He cited the countries\"'cordial and friendly\" relations, adding, \"I firmly believe and confidently hope\" they will grow stronger.

Specifically, the Archives claimed it already owned Roosevelt's notes to [Grace Tully] that he attached on White House memos and correspondence. \"That's the interesting part of the collection for researchers,\" said Cynthia Koch, the presidential library and museum's director. \"It's really the last great archives from the Roosevelt era that's been in private hands,\" Koch said. \"It represents his close working relationship with his personal secretary, so it is immensely important to see his close thinking in his own hand on a whole range of issues that came before him.\" Tully held on to the artifacts until her own death in 1984, according to [Chuck Schumer]'s office and the Roosevelt library. She willed the papers and memorabilia to her family. The collection passed through several private owners before Hollinger bought it from a rare book dealer.