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HOOVER, Herbert. Three typed letters signed ("Herbert Hoover") and one typed statement signed ("Herbert Hoover"), as former President, 6 October 1945 - 22 October 1951. Together 4 pages, 4to, one with original envelope. Together 4 items.
HOOVER ON THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II--FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE--ON AMERICAN LIFE. 6 October 1942: Hoover's remarks on "Liberty and Elections": "This is total war, he states," and "total war requires the total direction of civilian energies by the government." Americans had to surrender certain of their liberties during wartime, but it is important to "preserve the instrument by which these liberties are recovered after the war. The greatest of all these safeguards are the elections, the ballot, and the two party system." Everyone must go to the polls in November, Hoover commands, and "it will be notice to the totalitarian world that the spirit of democracy still lives within us."; 24 August 1943: Thanks for birthday wishes, confessing "I had hoped never to see our country in the situation to which it has been forced..."; 31 May 1945: Reporting that he had recently met with the new President, Harry S, Truman, "and he is most desirous of guiding his administration aright."; 22 October 1951: Six years after the war, Hoover ponders the lingering cultural damage of the conflict: "Part of this attitude of cynicism in children," he says, "is the drippings from dishonor in public officials. Part is from wrong ideological views of officials and others which violate the stabilities in American life. Part of it is the universal reaction from a period of unparalleled brutality which was the last war..." (4)
HOOVER ON THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II--FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE--ON AMERICAN LIFE. 6 October 1942: Hoover's remarks on "Liberty and Elections": "This is total war, he states," and "total war requires the total direction of civilian energies by the government." Americans had to surrender certain of their liberties during wartime, but it is important to "preserve the instrument by which these liberties are recovered after the war. The greatest of all these safeguards are the elections, the ballot, and the two party system." Everyone must go to the polls in November, Hoover commands, and "it will be notice to the totalitarian world that the spirit of democracy still lives within us."; 24 August 1943: Thanks for birthday wishes, confessing "I had hoped never to see our country in the situation to which it has been forced..."; 31 May 1945: Reporting that he had recently met with the new President, Harry S, Truman, "and he is most desirous of guiding his administration aright."; 22 October 1951: Six years after the war, Hoover ponders the lingering cultural damage of the conflict: "Part of this attitude of cynicism in children," he says, "is the drippings from dishonor in public officials. Part is from wrong ideological views of officials and others which violate the stabilities in American life. Part of it is the universal reaction from a period of unparalleled brutality which was the last war..." (4)