Article: American history afloat.(Cruise Views)

As I stepped onto the deck of the USS Potomac, I was conscious I was stepping aboard living history. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt boarded this presidential yacht August 4, 1941, four months before the United States entered World War II. The newspapers were told the cruise was to be a simple fishing trip, but the President was secretly transferred at night to the cruiser USS Augusta, which took him to a rendezvous with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill off the coast of Newfoundland. It was there that the two world leaders forged the Atlantic Charter, the allied partnership that contributed so much to winning the war. It's also when FDR first proposed a "United ...

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