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HOOVER, Herbert. Typed document signed as President ("Herbert Hoover"), Address of President Hoover on the Occasion of the dedication of the Harding Memorial at Marion, Ohio, June 16, 1931. 5 pages, 4to, signed at the end.
"THERE IS NO DISLOYALTY AND NO CRIME...WHICH COMPARES WITH THE FAILURE OF PROBITY IN THE CONDUCT OF THE PUBLIC TRUST"
HOOVER WARMLY RECALLS HARDING AND PASSIONATELY DENOUNCES THE CORRUPT CRIMINALS OF THE TEA POT DOME SCANDAL. "Warren G. Harding came from the people...It became his responsibility to lead the Republic in a period of reconstruction from another great War in which our democracy had again demonstrated its unalterable resolve to withstand encroachment upon its independence and to deserve the respect of the world..." Hoover warmly recalls his first meeting with Harding. "It was during the war and in a time of the greatest strain and anxiety. Late one evening the then Senator Harding, whom I had never met, came to my office...[and] said simply: 'I have not come to get anything. I just want you to know that if you wish the help of a friend, telephone me what you want. I am there to serve and help.' That statement, I came to learn, was typical of him." He goes on to describe Harding's "great disillusionment" following the revelations of corruptions in the Teapot Dome scandal, and reveals his own deep sense of outrage towards the criminals. "There are disloyalties and there are crimes which shock our sensibilities...But there is no disloyalty and no crime in all the category of human weaknesses which compares with the failure of probity in the conduct of the public trust."
"THERE IS NO DISLOYALTY AND NO CRIME...WHICH COMPARES WITH THE FAILURE OF PROBITY IN THE CONDUCT OF THE PUBLIC TRUST"
HOOVER WARMLY RECALLS HARDING AND PASSIONATELY DENOUNCES THE CORRUPT CRIMINALS OF THE TEA POT DOME SCANDAL. "Warren G. Harding came from the people...It became his responsibility to lead the Republic in a period of reconstruction from another great War in which our democracy had again demonstrated its unalterable resolve to withstand encroachment upon its independence and to deserve the respect of the world..." Hoover warmly recalls his first meeting with Harding. "It was during the war and in a time of the greatest strain and anxiety. Late one evening the then Senator Harding, whom I had never met, came to my office...[and] said simply: 'I have not come to get anything. I just want you to know that if you wish the help of a friend, telephone me what you want. I am there to serve and help.' That statement, I came to learn, was typical of him." He goes on to describe Harding's "great disillusionment" following the revelations of corruptions in the Teapot Dome scandal, and reveals his own deep sense of outrage towards the criminals. "There are disloyalties and there are crimes which shock our sensibilities...But there is no disloyalty and no crime in all the category of human weaknesses which compares with the failure of probity in the conduct of the public trust."