Warren Delano's grandson went on to survive a debilitating case of waterborne polio at thirty-nine. In March 1933 he was sworn in as the thirty-second president of the United States. One day, while leading his country through the dark days of the Great Depression of the 1930s, he shared his grandfather Warren Delano's favorite bit of advice with his secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau:
"Never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing."
"Which hand am I, Mr. President?" Morgenthau asked.
"My right hand," Franklin Delano Roosevelt responded with a smile, "but I keep my left hand under the table."