President Roosevelt Sees U.S. Armed Might In North Africa -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt passes along a line of American light tanks during a review of some of the U.S. forces stationed in North Africa during his conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other Allied leaders at Casablanca. The honor of driving the "Jeep" in which President Roosevelt and his party rode went to a U.S. Army sergeant, Oran Lass. September 28, 1943.