Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Dec. 18, 1943

They have a typical day; Roosevelt tells press of assassination plot

Lowell worked late and came one on the bus today, which was Saturday. Thelma wrote that she didn’t do much all day. “It was cold and I rode to the meat market and grocery with Vangy and Joe,” she wrote. That night, she and Lowell listened to the radio and played cards.

President Roosevelt’s press conference, as reported in the morning’s newspaper, was anything but typical, as he told “with evident relish” of a supposed Nazi plot to kill the Big Three leaders during the Tehran conference.

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