The Pittsburgh Press (October 14, 1944)
Roosevelt refuses to share platform with Governor Dewey
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt has declined an invitation to share the speaking platform with Governor Thomas E. Dewey at the closing session of The New York Herald Tribune Forum next Wednesday, the White House disclosed today.
He was invited by Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of The New York Tribune, Inc., which publishes The Herald Tribune, to speak at the forum, but turned down the bid in a brief telegram last night, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said.
Mr. Early added that, as he recalled it, the brief telegram gave no reason for the refusal.
Mr. Dewey has scheduled a major foreign policy address at the final forum session.