Franklin Roosevelt

Five months after Pearl Harbor, FDR responds to an article criticizing his war objectives, telling a U.S. Senator that the writer “is either deliberately writing stuff which rejoices the heart of Hitler or he is a theoretical dreamer who ought not to write at all…”

Typed letter signed (“F.D.R.” as President, one page, 7 x 9 inches, on “The White House Washington” letterhead stationery, 6 May 1942 to “The Honorable Lister Hill, United States Senate, Washington, D.C.” Typed “Personal” above the greeting. With original transmittal envelope with attached “U.S. Official Mail and Messenger Service” snipe. F.D.R. dismisses and opinion piece in the “Saturday Evening Post” defending the actions of Hitler and the Axis Powers. Joseph Lister Hill (December 29, 1894 - December 21, 1984) was a Democratic United States Senator from Alabama. A political moderate, Senator Hill was a Roosevelt supporter and, in fact, nominated FDR as the Democratic presidential candidate for 1940