Dougherty, Corinne Allison ( -2006)

DOUGHERTY, BATES

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 12/4/2006 at 21:44:55

Fairfield Ledger
Aug. 26, 2006, pg. 8.

Corinne Allison DOUGHERTY, 95, of Bethesda, Md., died Feb. 24, 2006, at Brighton Gardens of Tuckerman Lane in Bethesda.

Mrs. DOUGHERTY took a job as stenographer with the U.S. Department of Interior in 1937, and after a year, she was lent to the White House. Following news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, Mrs. DOUGHERTY was told to report to the White House where she worked outside the OVAL Office typing proposed material for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech and typing the final draft of what became known as the “day the will live in infamy” speech.

Mrs. DOUGHERTY worked in the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations and retired in 1966 as special assistant to the chief of White House correspondence.

Survivors include one daughter, Madelyn D. BATES and husband Quentin, who is formerly of Fairfield, of Bethesda.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bernard P. DOUGHERTY in 1976.
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