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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed ("F.D.R."), as President-elect, to Frederic A. Delano, Albany, 23 December 1932. 1 page, 4to, gubernatorial stationery, WITH 3-LINE AUTOGRAPH POSTSCRIPT.
FDR TRIES TO STICK HOOVER WITH THE COST OF REPAIRING HIS TIGER SKIN RUG in this humorous letter sent during the long, embittered transition between the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations. "The tiger skin which you gave me when we moved up here has been rather ill-used," FDR writes to his Uncle, "and I am taking the liberty of sending it down to you. Would you send it to someone to be repaired and to be kept until we move into the White House and then it will be already [sic] for me to step out on again?" Roosevelt adds the afterthought: "And the bill can go to the White House too. Perhaps H.H. will pay it by mistake." Outgoing President Hoover was not inclined to do FDR any favors during these four months that saw hundreds of bank failures and the U.S. economy hit rock bottom. Hoover tried to get Roosevelt's collaboration on various fiscal measures, but FDR refused to be tied down by any obligations prior to his own inaugural. The two men were barely on speaking terms by the time FDR's inauguration day rolled around on March 4, 1933.
FDR TRIES TO STICK HOOVER WITH THE COST OF REPAIRING HIS TIGER SKIN RUG in this humorous letter sent during the long, embittered transition between the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations. "The tiger skin which you gave me when we moved up here has been rather ill-used," FDR writes to his Uncle, "and I am taking the liberty of sending it down to you. Would you send it to someone to be repaired and to be kept until we move into the White House and then it will be already [sic] for me to step out on again?" Roosevelt adds the afterthought: "And the bill can go to the White House too. Perhaps H.H. will pay it by mistake." Outgoing President Hoover was not inclined to do FDR any favors during these four months that saw hundreds of bank failures and the U.S. economy hit rock bottom. Hoover tried to get Roosevelt's collaboration on various fiscal measures, but FDR refused to be tied down by any obligations prior to his own inaugural. The two men were barely on speaking terms by the time FDR's inauguration day rolled around on March 4, 1933.