a wealthy family loaned their african-american cooks to him, this woman named daisy bonner. so if the white house cook was with them they knew the food wouldn't be good. bonner would hook at the president and see if she was not looking healthy then they would bring the food out the first lady or doctor prescribed and as they were putting the plate by him they would whisper don't eat that and fdr faked like he wasn't hungry and once everybody cleared out they would take him back in the kitchen and hook him up with what he wanted. >> host: and there is a sweet story where she prepares what would be his last meal. >> guest: the day he dies he is sitting for a portrait and daisy bonner had a cheese sofle to be served at 1:15. fdr has his hemorrhage at 1:12 so the food isn't served and you know what happens when you let a souffle sit around? it falls. daisy bonner said it didn't fall until three hours later when the president was pronounced dead. >> host: it was keeping hope alive that maybe it would be consumed by him after all. >> guest: she was so moved by his death she wrote