The code specifically restricted information on " movements of the President of the United States " . As Price reported only to the President , Roosevelt effectively became censor of all news about himself . When he toured war factories around the country for two weeks in September 1942 , for example , only three wire service reporters accompanied him on the private railroad car '' Ferdinand Magellan '' . They filed articles for later publication , and despite being seen by tens of thousands of Americans , almost no mention appeared in the press of the president 's trip until after it ended . Similar procedures were used on later domestic and international trips , such as to Casablanca in 1943 and Yalta in 1945 . While the majority of reporters supported voluntarily censoring themselves over such travel , Roosevelt also used the code to hide frequent weekend trips to Springwood Estate and , some believed , the meetings with former lover Lucy Rutherford that began again in 1944 . During the 1944 presidential election , he may have used his ability to avoid press reports to hide evidence of worsening health . Such arbitrary use of the code was controversial among Washington reporters , and Price privately wrote that Roosevelt " greatly abused " the press ' cooperation
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