Franklin D. Roosevelt Day by Day March 29, 1945

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1:55pm – 2:55pm (lunch - Sun Parlor) Mrs. John Boettiger, Curtis Boettiger, Miss Laura Delano, Margaret Suckley

4:00pm To train enroute to Warm Springs, GA, with Margaret Suckley, Miss Laura Delano, Amb. Leighton McCarthy, Basil O'Connor
Note: Last entry in Tully log

ER In Washington, DC

Houseguest Miss Margaret Suckley and Miss Laura Delano (arr. 0850, dep. 1600 to go with FDR to Warm Springs, GA); Curtis Boettiger (arr. 9:15)

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Thirteen days before his death, ailing and wizened FDR during last hours in Oval Office, tomorrow 1945, before secret departure for Georgia:

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Death (1945)



Last photograph of Roosevelt, taken April 11, 1945, the day before his death

When Roosevelt returned to the United States from the Yalta Conference, many were shocked to see how old, thin and frail he looked. He spoke while seated in the well of the House, an unprecedented concession to his physical incapacity. During March 1945, he sent strongly worded messages to Stalin accusing him of breaking his Yalta commitments over Poland, Germany, prisoners of war and other issues. When Stalin accused the western Allies of plotting behind his back a separate peace with Hitler, Roosevelt replied: "I cannot avoid a feeling of bitter resentment towards your informers, whoever they are, for such vile misrepresentations of my actions or those of my trusted subordinates." On March 29, 1945, Roosevelt went to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, to rest before his anticipated appearance at the founding conference of the United Nations.

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