Upon her arrival at New York on 3 October, the destroyer resumed operations in American coastal waters. On 21 January 1945, "Baldwin" put to sea from Norfolk to rendezvous with the cruiser which carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the first leg of the trip to the "Big Three" conference at Yalta. She returned to New York on 27 February and began four months of operations in American waters. During that time, "Baldwin" escorted to the Panama Canal Zone and operated off the east coast in the antisubmarine screens of the aircraft carriers and .