Newton D. Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Newton D. Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937
Identifier
WWP16718
Date
1932 July 13
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
My dear Admiral Grayson
Ralph Hayes and Leonard Ayres have given me circumstantial accounts of your kindness to them and your generosity to me during the Chicago Convention. This expression of my appreciation is all too inadequate as it would be difficult to express my gratification and pride that our common service to our great Chief has left between us so substantial a feeling of respect and friendship.
I, of course, made Ralph Hayes’ task impossible a year ago when I determined not to be a candidate, and so Mr. Roosevelt came to the Convention with an impressive majority of the delegates, but each day I am learning that in spite of these insurmountable obstacles Ralph Hayes almost achieved the thing he had set his heart upon. Personally, I am relieved to be free from such responsibilities, but in all that has been said and done in the matter I have had an immense satisfaction from the realization that a very great part of the sentiment in my direction was really either a lingering love for Mr. Wilson from those who once were proud to follow him or a new zeal on the part of those who had misunderstood him but have at last come to understand. How much wiser and more far-sighted and in every way greater he was than any other man of his time or since!
With warm personal regards, believe me
Gratefully yours,
Newton D. Baker
Ralph Hayes and Leonard Ayres have given me circumstantial accounts of your kindness to them and your generosity to me during the Chicago Convention. This expression of my appreciation is all too inadequate as it would be difficult to express my gratification and pride that our common service to our great Chief has left between us so substantial a feeling of respect and friendship.
I, of course, made Ralph Hayes’ task impossible a year ago when I determined not to be a candidate, and so Mr. Roosevelt came to the Convention with an impressive majority of the delegates, but each day I am learning that in spite of these insurmountable obstacles Ralph Hayes almost achieved the thing he had set his heart upon. Personally, I am relieved to be free from such responsibilities, but in all that has been said and done in the matter I have had an immense satisfaction from the realization that a very great part of the sentiment in my direction was really either a lingering love for Mr. Wilson from those who once were proud to follow him or a new zeal on the part of those who had misunderstood him but have at last come to understand. How much wiser and more far-sighted and in every way greater he was than any other man of his time or since!
With warm personal regards, believe me
Gratefully yours,
Newton D. Baker
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Files
Collection
Citation
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937, “Newton D. Baker to Cary T. Grayson,” 1932 July 13, WWP16718, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.