In the summer of 1929 Mrs. Roosevelt, visiting Montreal with her two youngest boys, received a curious telegram from her husband: “Hope you had a good trip. What shall I do with your casket?”
Mrs. Roosevelt puzzled over this for some time, until finally it dawned on her that she had forgotten one piece of luggage: a lunch basket.
The typographical error was a family joke for many years, quoted whenever members of the family were planning trips.
Source:
Boller, Paul F. “Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Presidential Anecdotes. New York: Oxford UP, 1981. 266. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember (New York, 1949), 57.
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