“I found myself assigned to the White House guard staff.” “Soon I received another call to report to my command officer, and that is when he dropped a bombshell,” he said.
“I wanted to go to Europe - not be a typist.” “I just could not believe this,” Orsini recalled.
Orsini told a veterans’ organization two years ago that after enduring grueling boot-camp training, the officer in charge called him into his office in 1939 and informed him that his superior typing skills were needed in Washington. 8, 1941, when the president delivered his speech before a joint session of Congress a day after the Japanese attack on Hawaii. He was among the Marines in the House of Representatives on Dec. Orsini enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1940 and was assigned to the White House security detail guarding FDR. Roosevelt during his “Day of Infamy” speech after the Pearl Harbor attack, died Wednesday at age 93.
Orsini Sr., a former Marine who guarded President Franklin D.
