Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President 1
(Personal and Top Secret for the President from Harriman)
Reference cable ... [of January 16], White House number 167, in my first talk with Molotov about arrangements I told him I felt sure it would be desirable for you to have your own mess and mess crew and bring your own food for your usual diet just as we had arranged it in Teheran. He readily agreed and I am thoroughly satisfied he took it as an appropriate and quite natural thing to do. I have since been advised that arrangements on this basis are being made in the twenty-one room palace mentioned in my . . . [telegram of January 16].2 Weather permitting I expect to go there on the 21st, and have arranged to take Kathleen3 along as this is her department.