"Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."
— Jesse Owens

January 1, 1970

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About Franklin D. Roosevelt, as quoted in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics (2007), by Jeremy Schaap, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 211