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I have lost my best friend.

posted by LockeProposal on TheGrittyPast

From the White House at 5:43 P.M., Eleanor Roosevelt called Morgenthau at the Treasury and told him that the President was dead. She asked him to “come over quickly to the White House,” so they could call Elinor [Morgenthau’s wife] in Daytona Beach and tell her the news before she heard it on the radio and risked another heart attack.

Morgenthau wrote his sons, “It was one of the most considerate and kind acts I’ve known anyone to do.” After he and Mrs. Roosevelt called Elinor in her sickbed, he issued a statement to the press: “I have lost my best friend.” He wrote his sons that Roosevelt’s death had “depressed me terrifically” and he felt “in a sort of daze.”

Source:

Beschloss, Michael R. “No Earthly Powers Can Keep Him Here.” The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007. 214-15. Print.

Further Reading:

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Elinor Morgenthau

>From the White House at 5:43 P.M., [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Eleanor_Roosevelt_portrait_1933.jpg) called [Morgenthau](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Henry_Morgenthau%2C_Jr.1947.jpg) at the Treasury and told him that the President was dead. She asked him to “come over quickly to the White House,” so they could call [Elinor](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Eleanor_Roosevelt_and_Elinor_Morgenthau_in_Washington_DC_09-29-1944.gif) [**Morgenthau’s wife**] in Daytona Beach and tell her the news before she heard it on the radio and risked another heart attack. >Morgenthau wrote his sons, “It was one of the most considerate and kind acts I’ve known anyone to do.” After he and Mrs. Roosevelt called Elinor in her sickbed, he issued a statement to the press: “I have lost my best friend.” He wrote his sons that Roosevelt’s death had “depressed me terrifically” and he felt “in a sort of daze.” ________________________ **Source:** Beschloss, Michael R. “No Earthly Powers Can Keep Him Here.” *The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945*. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007. 214-15. Print. ________________________ **Further Reading:** [Anna Eleanor Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt) [Henry Morgenthau, Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgenthau_Jr.) [Elinor Morgenthau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Morgenthau)

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