Instructor: Carl Fields is a retired Westinghouse and Savannah River Site engineer who has lived in Aiken since 1990. He has been a member of the CLL and its predecessor organization since around 2005 and taught five previous CLL courses, including a 2024 course describing all US presidential libraries. Description: The FDR Presidential Library has constructed an internet website showing key daily appointments and other events, during days when President Roosevelt was in Washington, DC (and a few days when he was “on the road” at other locations). This course examines several of those “desk diary pages.” The course focuses on certain historic dates (such as December 7, 1941); dates of meetings with prominent people – including (future president) Lyndon Johnson, Crown Princess Märtha of Norway, actor Melvyn Douglas, and (probably) Aiken resident Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, and mysterious almost-daily visits to a White House “Doctor’s Office.”