6/8/2023 0 Comments Hitler by D. Harlan Wilson![]() ![]() The war in Europe would test Morgenthau in ways unlike any other member of the Roosevelt administration. The tragedy, coming just days before his lunch at the White House, laid bare the grim truths of the crisis unfolding on the continent. Louis, the ship carrying nearly a thousand Jewish refugees that had reached Florida only to be turned back to Europe, haunted him. (“From one of two of kind,” FDR had once inscribed a photograph to Elinor.) Morgenthau rarely dared to risk his most treasured friendship. Across Washington, Morgenthau and his wife Elinor were known as the couple closest to the Roosevelts: Since the early 1920s, they had worked together, socialized together and, long before the New Deal, made common cause. No other member of the Roosevelt cabinet enjoyed a relationship as intimate with the president the two had a standing date for a private lunch on Mondays. Roosevelt, “and we have not got anywhere on this Jewish refugee thing. ![]() ![]() attempted something he was loath to do: He prodded his best friend. On June 19, 1939, over lunch at the White House, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. ![]()
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