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HOOVER, Herbert. Autograph telegram signed ("Herbert Hoover"), as President-elect, to David Hinshaw, 4 November 1928. 1 page, 4to, Western Union letterhead, matted and framed with an engraved portrait. In pencil.
ON THE EVE OF HIS LANDSLIDE VICTORY over Al Smith, Hoover thanks the head of the Republican National Committee for his efforts during the campaign. "As you go on a needed holiday I want you to carry along my feeling of gratitude not only for all these months of most effective service but my heartfelt appreciation of your personal devotion and loyalty." Two days later Hoover steamrolled the Democratic candidate by 444 electoral votes to Smith's 87. He captured 58 of the popular vote. In one of the great ironies of Presidential history, Herbert Hoover entered the White House as one of the best qualified and most respected men to ever hold the job, only to leave four years later as one of the most despised for his perceived ineptitude in the face of the Great Depression.
ON THE EVE OF HIS LANDSLIDE VICTORY over Al Smith, Hoover thanks the head of the Republican National Committee for his efforts during the campaign. "As you go on a needed holiday I want you to carry along my feeling of gratitude not only for all these months of most effective service but my heartfelt appreciation of your personal devotion and loyalty." Two days later Hoover steamrolled the Democratic candidate by 444 electoral votes to Smith's 87. He captured 58 of the popular vote. In one of the great ironies of Presidential history, Herbert Hoover entered the White House as one of the best qualified and most respected men to ever hold the job, only to leave four years later as one of the most despised for his perceived ineptitude in the face of the Great Depression.