ocr: Howe had always been a sickly, asthmatic man- a condition exacerbated by his chain-smoking. In the: fall of1934 his health worsened. Coughing and hacking, he kept to his bedroom, and his health further deteriorated, The Roosevelts canceled the annual Cuff Links Dinner, a celebration, usually orchestrated by Howe, for those who had been wvith FDR sinçe the 1920 campaign, In March, Eleanor warned the Howe family to expect the worst, But he rallied, and lived for: another year, in and out of oxygen tents. Even after he was: moved to the Naval Hospital, he. insisted on a direct phone line to FDR's ...
