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Perkins:

He didn't go to Yalta.

Q:

Some one of the Roosevelt boys went. I thought it was Elliott. He wrote a book about Yalta.

Perkins:

Oh, that's right, he was there. Elliott was there. Anna was there too. I guess Elliott did. The good strong arm of Elliott was supposed to be good to lean on. And of course, Elliott was giving himself airs then. But Anna was doing the caretaking.

Well, I say that in explanation of the rather frightening pictures of him that have appeared at the Yalta meeting. Now, not many of them were published, but certain pictures were published at the time - not at the time of the Conference, but after it was over. Wasn't it secret, where they were, until they were on the way back? Yes. Some of them were published then, you see. But I understand and always have understood that Roosevelt responded very badly to photography when he wasn't feeling well - when he was ill he looked gaunt in a photograph, but he looked more gaunt in the photographs than he did in real life. Although I think he was having periods, undoubtedly, at Yalta, when he wasn't up to scratch. There were other days when he was very gay, feeling just fine.





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