Sublime

Belle Moskowitz

Altogether, Howe dispatched more than eleven thousand letters on FDR’s behalf.

Howe was more than a secretary. Later he joked that when he arrived in Washington he knew so little that for the first several days he was reduced “to blotting Franklin’s signature.”61 Within weeks he was on top of the job. Howe became the junior member of a two-man firm dedicated to furthering FDR’s career.