Expected to fetch at least $2,00,000

A diary kept by John F. Kennedy during his brief stint as a journalist after the Second World War is up for auction.

Boston-based RR Auction said the diary was expected to fetch at least $2,00,000 at the auction on Wednesday.

The 61-page diary was written in 1945 when the then 28-year-old Kennedy was a correspondent for Hearst newspapers and travelled through a devastated Europe.

The diary provides insights into the former U.S. president’s thoughts on world leaders of the era. Kennedy reflects on the legacy of Hitler and presages the future of the United Nations and the Western power struggle with the Soviet Union, a central conflict during his presidency 16 years later.

The diary was given by Kennedy to Deirdre Henderson, a research assistant in his campaign office in the late 1950s.