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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,634 posts) Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:04 AM Jan 2024

On January 1, 1942, Roosevelt and Churchill paid a visit to George Washington's grave.

Last edited Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:34 AM - Edit history (1)

Michael Beschloss was wrong. Those aren't words you'll see often. So was I. Those are words that are true more often than I'd prefer to have happen.

The wreath laying did not occur on January 8th, but a week earlier, on New Year's Day. On the 7th, 8th, and 9th, Roosevelt was in Hyde Park, NY. Eleanor was in DC.

Beschloss has surely corrected that tweet by now, but I don't have access to Twitter and so cannot find the latest one.

FDR and Churchill at George Washington's Mount Vernon grave today 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor:

Link to tweet

New Year's Day was a Thursday. Roosevelt and Churchill started the day by attending services at Christ Church in Alexandria in observance of the National Day of Prayer.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Day by Day, January 1, 1942

1:15am Retired from previous day

10:45am – 1:20pm

To Services at Christ Church, Alexandria, VA accompanied by ER, Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, Lord and Lady Halifax, Mrs. Hamlin, Miss Malvina Thompson, Mr. Lash, Diana Hopkins, Comdr. Thompson, Gen. Edwin M. Watson, Capt. John R. Beardall; thence to Mt. Vernon, VA where Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill laid a wreath

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/daylog/january-7th-1942/

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/daylog/january-8th-1942/

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/daylog/january-9th-1942/

Mon Jan 9, 2023: On January 8, 1942, Roosevelt and Churchill paid a visit to George Washington's grave.

Mon Jan 13, 2020, 12:46 PM: On January 8, 1942, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill visited George Washington's grave

From Dennis Donovan:

Wed Jan 8, 2020, 07:05 PM: Beschloss tweet: FDR and Churchill at George Washington's Mount Vernon grave today 1942