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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 6
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On 6/21/57. Miss ADAMS was contacted by SAS
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Street, New York Lary;“Where she resides with a
' ReBulet. She remarked that she was grateful for the Bureau's
acknowledgement of her letter and chat she was very surprised
to hear thet President Roosevelt had never discussed the
results of the Andrew J. Hercha, Jr. case with the Director.
She said, "“fhat is not the way it was handed to me." She
said that Mrs. Roosevelt had told her that the President = Be
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a dispute with Westbrook Pegler over the Hercha case and
asked her to do some "leg Work" for her. This involved visit
ing the office of the DAILY WORKER t get affidavits as well
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traveling in Pennsylvania to get affidavits from employees of
the Baldwin Locomotive plant. Miss Adams said that when she L:
told her not to answer any telegrams or letters from the FBI
because President Roosevelt wanted to talk to the Director
first. She said that she made herself unavailable and-about
ten days later received a telephone call from the President
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the mail an official copy of a confidential semorandum from
the Director to Mrs. Roosevelt, in which the Director stated
that he had been called to the White House twice to discuss the
Herchil' ase. “Miss ADAMS said that this memo, as well as all
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