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HOOVER, Herbert. Typed letter signed ("Herbert Hoover"), as former President, to Dan D. Casement, 2 August 1938. 1 page, 4to, on personal stationery. Fine.
A SHORT BLAST FROM HOOVER AGAINST THE "DEVILISH" FDR: "I like to get letters from the fellows who stand up and who do not propose to compromise with the Devil." Casement, a Republican Kansas cattle man, was president of the Farmer's Independent Council of America (and, at the end of his life, elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame). Hoover is no doubt congratulating him here for his stands against the Roosevelt administration's controversial agrarian policies. Hoover saw FDR's expansion of Federal power as a milder version of the authoritarian dictatorships of Russia, Germany and Italy. The New Deal seemed all the more dangerous since it came packaged behind Roosevelt's smiling face as a form of simple economic salvation for desperate and hungry farmers and workers. What it really did, Hoover thought, was strip political power away from state and local governments, even the Congress, and give it to unelected bureaucrats in Washington instead.
A SHORT BLAST FROM HOOVER AGAINST THE "DEVILISH" FDR: "I like to get letters from the fellows who stand up and who do not propose to compromise with the Devil." Casement, a Republican Kansas cattle man, was president of the Farmer's Independent Council of America (and, at the end of his life, elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame). Hoover is no doubt congratulating him here for his stands against the Roosevelt administration's controversial agrarian policies. Hoover saw FDR's expansion of Federal power as a milder version of the authoritarian dictatorships of Russia, Germany and Italy. The New Deal seemed all the more dangerous since it came packaged behind Roosevelt's smiling face as a form of simple economic salvation for desperate and hungry farmers and workers. What it really did, Hoover thought, was strip political power away from state and local governments, even the Congress, and give it to unelected bureaucrats in Washington instead.