ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D., AS 32ND PRESIDENT | Log of the President's Inspection Trip and Cruise on Board the U.S.S. Potomac 19 March - 1 April 1941. [N.P. Washington, D.C.?]: custom bound, 1941

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D., AS 32ND PRESIDENT 

Log of the President's Inspection Trip and Cruise on Board the U.S.S. Potomac 19 March - 1 April 1941. [N.P. Washington, D.C.?]: custom bound, 1941

4to (8 1/2 x 11 in.; 216 x 279 mm). Frontispiece group photo, title-page, [7], 20pp., text planographed from type written copy. Original stapled blue wrappers, upper wrapper pictorially printed with crossed fishing poles in dark blue; wrappers lightly sunned, minor fingersoiling. [With]: Silver gelatin print (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.; 165 x 241 mm) of the scale model replica of the U.S.S. Potomac, presented to FDR. Together in blue morocco backed folder. 

Inscribed by President Roosevelt, "For Captain Leahy [sic] from Franklin D Roosevelt", on the title-page.

A rare log of Roosevelt's cruise from Port Everglades to the Bahamas. The guests of honor included: Attorney General Robert Jackson, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, and Harry Hopkins. The log begins: "Having had a desire for some time to get away from Washington for a few days of restful diversion, including some hoped for fishing in southern waters, the President had previously instructed Captain Callaghan, his Naval Aide, to have the POTOMAC available at Port Everglades, Florida, for a projected cruise of the Bahamas."