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PROPERTY FROM THE FORBES COLLECTION
HOOVER, Herbert. Two typed letters signed ("Herbert Hoover"), as former President, to O. Glenn Saxon, 24 August 1940 and to Wallace H. White, 12 July 1945. Together 2 pages 4to.
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HOOVER, Herbert. Two typed letters signed ("Herbert Hoover"), as former President, to O. Glenn Saxon, 24 August 1940 and to Wallace H. White, 12 July 1945. Together 2 pages 4to.
THE "INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY OF THE NEW DEAL" AND EMPEROR HIROHITO'S ROLE IN THE JAPANESE SURRENDER IN 1945
Two fine post-presidential letters: "I have to make some speeches in the campaign," Hoover tells Saxon in 1940, "and there are certain things that I would like to bring out." One of which was "the steady increase in the tariff since the New Deal came into power." Hoover wonders "if there is anybody in your contingent who can dig out this sort of stuff. I would want to be able to deliver some statistics on the total intellectual dishonesty of the New Deal and cite these actions as proof. I am in the hopes that you are finding this campaign better than the last one. Certainly there is a great deal of response over the country." The second letter, to White, is a fascinating reflection on what Hoover sees as the flagging state of American morale, the unpopularity of rationing, as well as his thoughts on the prospect of concluding peace with Japan, the upcoming Potsdam Conference, and the fledgling United Nations. He believes that if Truman would make a statement declaring "no desire on our part to destroy the Emperor or his position," then "we would get immediate results" and an end to the war. "I have just come across the continent," he says, "making many stops en route. The Japanese war is, of course, uppermost in peoples' minds; it is not very popular. The country, I find, is greatly concerned over the forthcoming Berlin [Potsdam] Conference. The San Francisco Charter has not made a very deep impression so far, either for good or evil. There is almost universal suspicion of Russia originating...from Communist activities in the United States. However, every conversation finally drifts onto some outrage by the O. P. A. [Office of Price Administration] in its management of food." Together 2 items. (2)
THE "INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY OF THE NEW DEAL" AND EMPEROR HIROHITO'S ROLE IN THE JAPANESE SURRENDER IN 1945
Two fine post-presidential letters: "I have to make some speeches in the campaign," Hoover tells Saxon in 1940, "and there are certain things that I would like to bring out." One of which was "the steady increase in the tariff since the New Deal came into power." Hoover wonders "if there is anybody in your contingent who can dig out this sort of stuff. I would want to be able to deliver some statistics on the total intellectual dishonesty of the New Deal and cite these actions as proof. I am in the hopes that you are finding this campaign better than the last one. Certainly there is a great deal of response over the country." The second letter, to White, is a fascinating reflection on what Hoover sees as the flagging state of American morale, the unpopularity of rationing, as well as his thoughts on the prospect of concluding peace with Japan, the upcoming Potsdam Conference, and the fledgling United Nations. He believes that if Truman would make a statement declaring "no desire on our part to destroy the Emperor or his position," then "we would get immediate results" and an end to the war. "I have just come across the continent," he says, "making many stops en route. The Japanese war is, of course, uppermost in peoples' minds; it is not very popular. The country, I find, is greatly concerned over the forthcoming Berlin [Potsdam] Conference. The San Francisco Charter has not made a very deep impression so far, either for good or evil. There is almost universal suspicion of Russia originating...from Communist activities in the United States. However, every conversation finally drifts onto some outrage by the O. P. A. [Office of Price Administration] in its management of food." Together 2 items. (2)