Signed James Roosevelt II White House Card FDR Son WWII Navy Cross For Sale

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Signed James Roosevelt II White House Card FDR Son WWII Navy Cross recipient. This official White House card and autograph is guaranteed to pass any 3rd party authentication process such as JSA or PSA.

James Roosevelt II (December 23, 1907 August 13, 1991) was an American businessman, Marine officer, activist, and Democratic Partypolitician. The eldest son of PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, he served as an official Secretary to the President for his father and was later elected to the United States House of Representatives representing California, serving five terms from 1955 to 1965.

James Roosevelt accompanied his father to the Inter-American Conference at Buenos Aires in December as a military aide. On January 6, 1937, Roosevelt was officially appointed "administrative assistant to the President"; on July 1, he was appointed secretary to the president. Roosevelt was the White House coordinator for 18 federal agencies by October 1937.

Roosevelt was considered among his father's most important counselors. Time magazine suggested he might be considered "Assistant President of the United States"

World War II broke out in Europe in September 1939, and Roosevelt resigned the Marine commission the following month as a lieutenant colonel that he had received in 1936 when serving as his father's military aide and accepted a commission as a captain in the Marine Corps Reserve so that he could enter active duty, which Roosevelt did in November 1940.

Roosevelt visiting Degania, Mandatory Palestine, 1941

In April 1941, his father sent Roosevelt on a secret, world-circling diplomatic mission to assure numerous governments that the United States would soon be in the war. The leaders contacted included Chiang Kai-shek in China, King Farouk in Egypt, and King George of Greece. During this trip, Roosevelt came under German air attack in both Crete and Iraq. In the African/Middle Eastern portions of the mission, he traveled with Britain's Lord Mountbatten as far as Bathurst in the Gambia. They reported on trans-African air ferry conditions, an important concern of FDR and Winston Churchill at the time. In August, Roosevelt joined the staff of William J. Donovan, coordinator of information, with the job of working out the exchange of information with other agencies.

World War II

Roosevelt and his mother Eleanor visit Lt. Col. Evans Carlson at the San Diego Naval Hospital, July 1944

Despite occasionally debilitating health problems, Roosevelt served with the 2nd Raiders at Midway in early June 1942 and in the Makin Island raid on August 17–18, 1942, where he and 22 others were awarded the Navy Cross. He retired with the rank of Brigadier General.

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