TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, March 11, 1942. Letter to his former son-in-law, Curtis Bean Dall, in part: "I cannot possibly understand the quotation you send me in regard to 'certain important governmental department executives' who are said to be hesitant in regard to any government action because you happen to be my former son-in-law. Frankly, my first thought is that somebody is giving you or your friends a run-around. All I can tell you is that such action on their part, if true, is wholly unwarranted, and that you fall into exactly the same rule which I have always insisted be lived up to. The rule is that every proposition must be judged solely and absolutely on the merits of the proposition and that personalities, whether of connections of the family, acquaintances or total strangers, be treated exactly alike. I have no objection to your showing this letter to any of the people who are supposed to have put forward any other rule. If you have a good proposition I hope that it will be decided solely on the merits and, if it measures up, that it will be accepted." In fine condition, with an area of toning to the right edge. Dall was married to Anna Roosevelt from 1926 to 1934, a union that provided the Roosevelts with their first two grandchildren.
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