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Papers from Roosevelt's personal secretary donated

Tumulty, Brian

2010

Overview

[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.

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