2 Rule One: The way to attract an attractive woman who is used to attention is to ignore her.
3 Leon Blum, First Socialist Premier of France, 1936-1938.
4 The federal government’s psychiatric hospital in the District of Columbia.
5 Ernst “Putzi” von Hanfstaengel, a classmate and close friend of Roosevelt at Harvard, was one of the early aristocratic supporters of Hitler and the Nazi party. Later, his disillusionment with Nazism became known to Heinrich Himmler, who ordered von Hanfstaengel murdered. He learned of the plot and managed to escape with his family through Spain. Roosevelt established him in an apartment in the Hotel Washington, where von Hanfstaengel spent the war offering his knowledge of the Nazi inner circle to Roosevelt and the several intelligence services.
6 U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics.
7 U.S. Navy Bureau of Personnel.
8 Newspaper columnist Drew Pearson, who loathed Franklin Roosevelt and seldom passed over an opportunity to attack him, had pieced together one or two facts with a good deal of vague hearsay and written a column in which he accused Roosevelt, through Colonel William J. Donovan, of keeping his rich, famous, and social dilettante friends out of combat service by recruiting them for his propaganda organization. Pearson had even heard about the house on Q Street, calling it a “luxurious mansion requisitioned to serve as a barracks for Rooseveltian favorites,” but had mislocated it in Virginia.
9 A sealed-in-plastic officers’ identity card issued by the Adjutant General’s Office.
10 In April 1915, in a plan devised by Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, fifteen British Commonwealth divisions were landed at Gallipoli with the intention of capturing Constantinople and forcing the Dardanelles Channel. After suffering 213,980 casualties, the force was soundly defeated by the Turks and withdrawn. Churchill was forced to resign as First Lord, and went to France to command a battalion of infantry in the trenches.
11 An embroidered blue triangle with the letters “US,” worn sewn to the lapels.
12 On the postflight examination form, mechanical problems that would make further flight hazardous are marked with a red X.