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““Dear Bill,” the President scrawled across the top of the letter in his own hand as a memo to Admiral Leahy, “Please see that the Old Girl gets the following:
‘Dear Widow Yamamoto, Time is a great leveler and somehow I never expected to see the old boy at the White House anyway. Sorry I can’t attend the funeral because I approve it. Hoping he is where we know he ain’t. Very sincerely yours, Franklin D. Roosevelt’
“And ask her to visit you at the Wilson House this summer,” Roosevelt added in a postscript to Leahy. It wasn’t kind, or gracious; indeed the President never sent the letter. But it reflected something of what, in his heart of hearts, he really felt about Japanese perfidy. And his profound satisfaction that he’d been able to see Admiral Yamamoto get his just deserts.
— Commander In Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (FDR at War Book 2) by Nigel Hamilton
‘Dear Widow Yamamoto, Time is a great leveler and somehow I never expected to see the old boy at the White House anyway. Sorry I can’t attend the funeral because I approve it. Hoping he is where we know he ain’t. Very sincerely yours, Franklin D. Roosevelt’
“And ask her to visit you at the Wilson House this summer,” Roosevelt added in a postscript to Leahy. It wasn’t kind, or gracious; indeed the President never sent the letter. But it reflected something of what, in his heart of hearts, he really felt about Japanese perfidy. And his profound satisfaction that he’d been able to see Admiral Yamamoto get his just deserts.
— Commander In Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (FDR at War Book 2) by Nigel Hamilton