The President privately joked about Hull’s lisp and loved to impersonate him, crying, “Jesus Chwist!”
For a decade he had done much of his business through Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, an old Roosevelt family friend whom Hull hatefully denounced as an “All-American thun of a bitch.”
Source:
Beschloss, Michael R. “Fifty Thousand Germans Must Be Shot!” The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007. 18-19. Print.
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