Vice President Harry Truman liked to spend afternoons with a bourbon and branch at House Speaker Sam Rayburn’s “Board of Education” hideaway.   When he arrived on April 12, 1945, Rayburn told Truman to call Steve Early in the White House...

Personal Advisor to FDR for the Great Depression and World War II (1912 Class President Grinnell College)   Next after FDR and his “little dog Fala,” the USS Potomac passenger with the most nautical miles was likely Harry L. Hopkins, the president’s valued...