The Roosevelts

[Gawdzilla]

One could argue that that continued courtesy is what kept it generally "unspoke of" in front of the public and thus the appearance of a kept secret.

(just playing devil's advocate - I don't actually have a real opinion on it.)

That's just it, it wasn't secret in those days, "everybody" knew. I recently gave a talk on "Pearl Harbor and Modern Mythmaking" to a Rationalist club near here. This was the kind I discussed. Conspiracy theorists cherry-pick the available information and create their own version of reality. The fact that there are very few pictures of FDR in his braces or chair "logically" means that the press was threatened if they published such pix. "It's jut one more way we have of knowing FDR was EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!"