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A letter arranging one last secret rendezvous casts new light on the star-crossed love of Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Rutherfurd. Marked “Personal & Private,” the letter arrived at President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s retreat in Warm Springs, Ga., in April 1945, addressed to Grace Tully, the president’s secretary. It was written on the black-bordered stationery of …
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