Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, accompanied by a copy of a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Robert Hannegan

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Hyde Park Dutehess County, New York June 3, 1945 ECCORDS Dear Mr. President: : SERVICE™ I am enclosing a copy of a letter which I have just sent to Mr. Hannegan, as I have fun doing a lot of thinking along these lines since I have been back in New York State. I feel I have an obligation to send this to you as well as to Mr. Hannegan. You will know, I am sure, that I have written out of genuine interest in the Administration and in the Party, and above everything else, out of interest in the country. I have no idea whether you agree with me or not, but all I can do is to send you the results of my observations and my conversations with people in the last few weeks. I should also like to bring to your attention, in case you missed it, a broadcast which came from overseas in Germany the morning of June 2nd, shortly after midnight. I listened because I know Bill Chaplin, the AP reporter who was-one of the speakers. I know he is an