Roosevelt Diary Footnotes Day by Day on Wide Traveling Swing
Merriman Smith profiles President Roosevelt’s cross country journey from September 17 to 20. The diary recounts secrecy at departure, stops at Detroit Chrysler tank plant Willow Run, Ford production notes, and roving visits to Allis-Chalmers and Federal Cartridge. Roosevelt greets workers, surveys war plants, and endures rain and chilly travel.
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Merriman Smith
United Press
Wher
White House
Press
Roosevelt
Washington
Pacific Coast
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Detroit
Chrysler Tank Arsenal
General Lees
Chrysler
Emil Zycczynski
Mr. Roosevelt
Charles E. Sorensen
Ford
Willow Run
Lake Michigan
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Milwaukee
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Federal Cartridge Corporation
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Roosevelt diary notes coastal move through Rockies to California
President Roosevelt travels by train through Montana Idaho Oregon Washington and California from Sept 21 to 28. The journal records forest fire damage in Montana, launch of a victory ship at Kaiser shipyard, inspections at Mare Island and Oakland, and meetings with wounded sailors and Marines.
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Tana
Plains
Great Mountains
West
Mr. Roosevelt
Rocky Mountains
Montana
Rockies
Athol
Ida
Roosevelt
Anna
John Boettiger
Sissie
Buzzie
Fort Lewis
Seattle
Bremerton Navy Yard
Boeing Aircraft Factory
Vancouver
Wash
Aluminum Company of America
Portland
Ore
Henry J. Kaiser
Anna Boettiger
Kaiser Assembly Line
Cascade Mountains
San Francisco
Mare Island Navy Yard
Oakland
Mare Island Hospital
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Douglas Aircraft
Army
San Juan Capistrano
Mission
Pacific
Rancho Santa Margarita Y Las Flores
San Diego
Naval Hospital
Marine Training Station
Consolidated Aircraft
San John
Navy
Arizona
New Mexico
John Nance Garner
Uvalde Station
Garner
Texas
San Antonio
Kelly
Randolph Fields
Fort Sam Houston
Benbrook
Dutch Branch Ranch
Elliott
Army Air Force
Ruth
Chandler
David
West Coast
President tours Higgins boat plant near Fort Worth
President visits the Bayou St John boatyard of Andrew J. Higgins near Fort Worth to inspect mass produced landing boats anti submarine craft and motor torpedo boats. He tours the second floor production area and views the first floor operations before traveling to Camp Shelby Mississippi where crowds greet the train.
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Fort Worth
New Orleans
Bayou St John
Andrew J. Higgins
Higgins
Camp Shelby
Hattiesburg
Miss
85Th
Custer
Georgia
Roosevelt Returns From South Carolina Trip
President Roosevelt traveled from Carolina to Fort Jackson near Columbia on Oct 1 renewing the 77th Metropolitan division. He flew back to Washington at noon and joined a capacity press conference after arriving to recount the trip and catch up on Washington developments.
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Carolina
Fort Jackson
Columbia
White House
Roosevelt
Washington
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