Andrew Meier with Harold Holzer at the Roosevelt House

Andrew Meier in conversation with Harold Holzer, Jonathan F. Fanton Director of Roosevelt House at the Roosevelt House, February 6, 2023.

Roosevelt House is especially proud to host this discussion of the definitive Morgenthau family biography. This historic building, once the Roosevelt family home, served as FDR’s transition headquarters in 1932-33. And here the President-elect met frequently with his friend, advisor, and future Cabinet member Henry Morgenthau Jr. to explore the financial reforms that would be introduced in the New Deal.

To permanently honor the longstanding connection between the Morgenthau family and Roosevelt House, Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab, in 2018, formally dedicated the building’s west staircase to the memory of Henry’s son Robert M. Morgenthau, who served as Manhattan District Attorney for 35 years. “The Morgenthau name,” she said at the time, “—which is joined forever in American history to that of the Roosevelts—should be a permanent part of this house.”