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Franklin D. Roosevelt's NTIAL E Y D A I S C E H R T P U S C S A Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Floating White House” POTOM Oakland, California 2012 Winter Edition INSIDE THIS ISSUE: THE CUFF LINKS CLUB By Les Dropkin Marti’s Musings By MARTI BURCHELL A look back at 2011 - a truly In his 1920 bid for the Vice-Presidency as the Democratic Party’s candidate, FDR bodacious year. .3 had the support and advice of many people. With some, like FDR’s political men- tor Louis Howe, the relationship went back to the early days of FDR’s political From the First Lady career in New York after he won the race in 1910 for State Senator for Dutchess Thoughts on the trouble with government from Eleanor County – normally a stronghold of the Republican Party. For others, becoming Roosevelt. .3 part of FDR’s team was of much more recent origin. Mooring Lines In December of 1920, just a few months after the Democratic Party’s electoral By VIRGINIA RAPP loss, FDR wanted to express his gratitude to nine people in particular who had A change in couse takes us to the USS Iowa. 4 worked so long and hard on his campaign. He chose to do this by giving to each of them a set of golden cuff links from Tiffany’s. One of the cuff links bore the Potomac Puzzler initials FDR; the other, the initials of the recipient. The cuff links shown here were Test your Knowledge of the FDR those given to Renah F. Camalier, one of FDR’s stenographers in the campaign. era. .4 Captain Daniel J. Callaghan - The cuff links were much more than souvenirs of a hard fought campaign. It soon the Rest of the Story became the custom for members of the Club to get together for dinner every year By JOE WINKEL on or about January 30th, FDR’s birthday. These men of extraordinary abilities A look at the legacy of President were thus brought together regularly; the ties of loyalty to FDR and the preserva- Roosevelt’s Naval Aide. 5 tion of the relationships among them would make the Club a potent force in later 2012 Cruise Schedule years and later campaigns. Something for everyone starting with Opening Day on the Bay – The dinners were very private affairs. They afforded Club members a chance to join us and cruise the Bay in reminisce and indulge in skits and high jinks. Well oiled by the end of dinner, they Presidential style . .7 would enjoy a poker game Potomac Profile afterwards. The Club would Art Haskell – the helmsman for also be a source of strong charting the course of all things support to both Eleanor and financial. 9 Franklin in the very difficult years after he contracted Friends of the Potomac The most important page in this polio in 1921. issue. 10 As the years passed the group began to be referred to as the Cuff Links Gang. POTOMAC LINKS: More individuals became members. Wives, Eleanor and Eleanor’s friends began to be invited; they graciously retired after dinner so the poker night could begin. Visit the Potomac on FaceBook! Louis Howe often took the lead in preparing the “program” for the evening. A Cruises and Special Events good sense of his preparation for the night is afforded using 1924 as an example. The idea was to pretend they were still in the middle of the 1920 campaign; that Student Tours they were in the wardroom of a battleship at the Brooklyn Navy Yard where there was going to be a dinner in FDR’s honor and that the “Gang” would be imperson- Private Charters and Events ating Navy Yard workers. Become a Friend of the Potomac continued on page 2 Part of Howe’s Letter Planning the 1924 Dinner We might start out with an amusing dialogue between Admiral (William V.) Pratt and the Master Mechanic in which Pratt insists that all the boys come aboard whether they have washed their hands or not. get Marvin McIntire to get sailor suits from the Department for our four sweetest singers. They can dress in my room before dinner, and appear as the Colorado Star Quartette. Also, some other goat must represent the Marines. Apropos of Haiti, he should present Franklin with a couple of skulls of Haytians which he dug up from the local graveyard for amusement. You will probly remember the unfortunate incident. The more I think of it the more posssibility this seems to give, and I am getting quite keen for it as I write. Get the gang together and let me know the date for the big drunk. If photos of the Club dinners were taken they remain in private hands, with one exception. In 1973 photos of the January 30, 1934 get together of the Club were donated to the Tacoma Public Library. The dinner that night, the first to be held in the White House, has come to be known as the “toga, toga” party. Some people who were opposed to the New Deal measures being taken had begun calling FDR “prickly Caesar”. The theme for the dinner had been found. These pictures belonged to Kirke L. Simpson, one of the original Club members– he is just below FDR in the photo to the left. The person he gave them to later donated them to the Tacoma Public Library. The Cuff Links Club, White House, 1934 By this time the women were participating fully in the high jinks. In the photos below, Eleanor is standing to FDR’s right dressed as the Delphic Oracle; his daughter Anna seated just to his left is one of the “Vestal Virgins” surrounding FDR. “Toga, Toga Party” Birthday Celebration, White House, 1934 1934 saw the start of another tradition – the Birthday Balls. These were balls held in thousands of communities across the country on FDR’s birthday to raise money for the Warm Springs Foundation and the National Foundation for Infantile Pa- ralysis. Since Franklin, Eleanor, Anna and their friends would have to appear at the many Washington venues, it meant that less time was open for the Cuff Links Gang dinner and revelries. By January, 1936 Louis Howe was gravely ill. FDR drove out to Washington’s Naval Hospital to see him, went back to the White House for the dinner and then with Eleanor and their entourage to four of the balls. With Howe’s death in April a major driving force behind the Club’s meetings was gone. In succeeding years surviving Gang members simply became invitees to the Birthday Balls. The Club and the Birthday Balls ended together with the death of FDR in April, 1945. -2- MARTI’S MUSINGS…Bodacious By Marti Burchell What a wonderful word is “bodacious”, meaning intrepidly bold or daring and it so aptly describes 2011 at the Potomac Association. We started the year wondering if we would still be in business by December, and willing to try any new idea to make it so. Here is a sampling of the boda- cious creativity that has run rampant through the Association: To begin, we did a first-ever online appeal from our Chairman Michael Roo- sevelt to all of our Potomac friends… it worked netting $14,000 in new and generous contributions. A group of Potomac volunteers created an SOS (Save our Ship) Committee to brainstorm creative ideas to support and move the Association into the future… it worked. We now have a volunteer led blueprint for operations and fund development. The Potomac Marketing Committee reached out to the City of Oakland and other local groups to insure they know the Po- tomac is active and well… it worked! We are now involved in several ongoing efforts to maximize participation by Oakland organizations in the 2012-13 America’s Cup opportunities. We asked to participate in the 2011 Strictly Sail Pacificboat show at Jack London Square…it worked! We took the Potomac down the boardwalk to the show area and were a featured attraction with hundreds of new folks visiting our ship. Thanks to show coordinator, Mitch Perkins, we were also the site for the VIP cocktail party… more new fans of the Potomac enjoyed being on board. Good news, we will be back for this year’s show, April 12-15. We courted a major film director to use our Potomac for a motion picture… it worked. During June the ship was leased to do a movie, featuring well-known actors and will be released late this year. As a result we netted four months in operational income. We contacted yacht-charter brokers to help us develop a plan to make the Potomac a premium charter site for the upcoming America’s Cup… it worked. We developed a working relationship with two brokers. We are creating a professional market- ing package, and making important contacts with the America’s Cup Authority. We weren’t certain that we would do our Bluegrass on Board concerts this year, but our Board-sponsor, Jean Gaskill, boldly decided that the Third Annual Concert Series would be the charm for success… it worked. All four concerts were sold out and we are now being contacted by well-known bluegrass groups who have heard about our series (finally) and want to join us. A little bodaciousness can go a long way toward refreshing and renewing an organization, and I do believe that 2011 was a truly Bodacious year! Thank you to all of our fabulous volunteers and crew who made it so. It worked! From the First Lady GOVERNMENT: Our trouble is that we do not demand enough of the people who represent us.
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