With U.S. entry into World War II, however, he enlisted as a private in June 1942, and was commissioned in the field artillery the following month and assigned to the 893rd Tank Destroyer Battalion.

As part of his confidential 1943 report for the British government about the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office analyst Isaiah Berlin described Rogers’s political leanings and his prospective post-war positions regarding world order and, more specifically, the British Empire:A new-comer to the House.

A sincere and somewhat impassioned young man who believes strongly in the Wallace type of internationalism and in cooperation with the United Nations.

A trifle callow and politically inexperienced, he will undoubtedly be a vigorous and enthusiastic champion of all-out post-war co-operation with the United Nations.

[2]After his resignation, Rogers was assigned to the 814th Tank Destroyer Battalion and served in the European campaign in George Patton's Third United States Army.

As a character actor he starred in The Boy from Oklahoma, a 1954 Western film directed by Michael Curtiz (the basis for the 1957 television series Sugarfoot).

[5] Also for one season, in 1956, he hosted the weekday-morning (7:00 a.m.) Good Morning show on CBS Television[6] but was replaced by Jimmy Dean.

In poor health after suffering several strokes, having heart problems, and having had hip replacements, Rogers died by suicide in 1993 at the age of 81.