the Cabinet Room From 7:08 p.m. to 7:09 p.m. on April 12, 1945,
the Cabinet Room was the site of the changing of the guard at
the White House. Earlier that afternoon, Eleanor Roosevelt sent
a request to Vice President Harry Truman at the Capitol and
asked him to come at once to her study in the White House. After
he arrived, the Vice President received the grave news that
President Franklin Roosevelt had died in Warm Springs, Georgia.
When the Vice President asked Mrs. Roosevelt if there was
anything he could do for her, she replied, "Is there anything we
can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now." Soon flags
across the nation were lowered to half-staff as the American
people learned of President Roosevelt's death. With his wife
standing next to him, Harry Truman was sworn-in as the 33rd
President of the United States in a one-minute ceremony in the
Cabinet Room in the West Wing. The Cabinet Room has provided
20th-century presidents with a place to conduct the business of
the American people. From ro