The task group (USS Cummings, Dunlap and Fanning) arrived off Restoration Point.

Mrs. John Boettinger, Mr. Reilly, Carlton Smith and the Navy Yard pilot came on board the USS Cummings from a navy yard tug. Leo DeWaard also came on board at this time bringing with him official White House mail. The USS Cummings, now flying FDR's flag, proceeded on to the Puget Sound Navy Yard and moored at the upper end of number two drydock, which had been flooded for use so that FDR's ship could be moored inside and a larger crowd accomodated for FDR's address to the navy yard workers and to the nation.

Moored and the radio and sound technicians immediately boarded the ship to make the shore connections and other preparations incident to the broadcast. At FDR's request, no honors were rendered on our arrival. A crowd of some five thousand yard workers and service personnel was on hand to greet FDR on his arrival and to acknowledge his waving to them with rousing cheers. By the time the broadcast began the crowd had increased in size to perhaps eight or ten thousand.

Note: Adm. Taffinder, Commandant 13th Naval Dist., and Adm. Griffen, Commandant of the Puget Sound Navy Yard were the first to come on board. Miss Tully and Mrs. Brady rejoined the party here.

FDR spoke from the forecastle deck of the USS Cummings, standing just foreward of number one 5" gun-mount. He spoke for thirty-five minutes, the talk being broadcast over all the national radio hookups.

Note: Plans for an auto drive about the navy yard after the broadcast were cancelled and the President did not leave the ship.

The USS Cummings was unmoored and got underway for Seatlle, WA.

Arrived and tied up at Pier 91, inside the Naval Station limits. The train had been moved up from San Diego, CA and was parked on a siding on the same pier as we were moored to, so that our transfer from the USS Cummings to the train was a simple matter.

FDR and his party dep. the USS Cummings and went aboard the train. Adm. Taffinder, who had accompanied us from Bremerton, WA in the USS Cummings, dep. us here.

Tranfer of baggage and miscellaneous equipment was effected and we departed Seattle, WA on the return journey to Washington, DC. Mrs. John Boettinger, Miss Grace G. Tully, Mrs. Brady, Mr. Reilly and various other Secret Service agents, Dewey Long, Mr. Cook, Maj. Greer and his communications personnel, Daniel L. Moorman of the Baltimore and Ohio, the newsmen, radiomen and photographers rejoined us at Seatlle for the trip home.

Note: Distance steamed, Auke Bay to Bremerton, WA, 953 miles. Distance steamed Bremerton to Seattle, 21 miles. Total miles traveled by sea this voyage, 7248 miles.

In Hyde Park, NY