Just before dawn Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf is taken into custody by the FBI under suspicion of being “among the ringleaders of the Jewish conspiratorial plot against America.” At the same time the First Lady, said to be suffering from “extreme nervous exhaustion,” is transferred by ambulance from the White House to Walter Reed Army Hospital. Others arrested in the early-morning roundup include Governor Lehman, Bernard Baruch, Justice Frankfurter, Frankfurter protégé and Roosevelt administrator David Lilienthal, New Deal advisers Adolf Berle and Sam Rosenman, labor leaders David Dubinsky and
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