I dug out Cyril Clemens' book on FDR (MT and FDR, 1949) and in it Cryil gives an account of his Dec 8, 1933 White House interview with FDR, in which FDR says he met Twain in April, 1891 when his father took him out to the Hartford house (just before the Clemenses closed it down and moved to Europe in June). Twain gave FDR a double-autograph. FDR says that it was the keeper of books at the British Museum (now BL) who at some later date suggested that he read CtY, and he then goes to explain quite accurately from memory the passage about the "New Deal" and why he borrowed that phrase. Cyril also includes a brief intro by Eleanor Roosevelt confirming her late husband's love of MT and that CtY was his favorite book. I also glanced through William Gibson's THEODORE ROOSEVELT AMONG THE HUMORISTS (1980) and found no mentions of FDR, just a good discussion of MT's attitudes toward TR. Kevin Mac Donnell Austin, TX