Woodrow Wilson to Bernard M. Baruch
Title
Woodrow Wilson to Bernard M. Baruch
Creator
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Identifier
WWP25568
Date
1918 November 30
Description
President Wilson writes to the Chairman of the War Industries Board that he agrees the work of the board should not be permanent.
Source
Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence
Contributor
Maria Matlock
Language
English
Provenance
Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.
Text
My dear Mr. Chairman:
Allow me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of November 19th about concluding the labors of the War Industries Board, and to say that while I agree to the conclusions to which you have come and deem it best, as you do, that the activities of the Board as such should cease with the first of January next, it is with a feeling of very sincere regret that I see this admirable and efficient agency discontinued. I have constantly felt the spirit and quality of the work it has been doing, and it has been a source of great confidence to me in the prosecution of the war that the tasks of the Board were in such hands. I entirely concur in your estimate of the services of your associates, and I want to add my own conviction that the chief cause of the success of the Board and of its happy relations with the departments of the Government has been your own ability, tact, and devotion to duty. It is with the utmost regret that I accept your resignation, and I shall beg that you will not leave Washington but continue to lend us the advice which has been all along so valuable to us.
As I have told you orally, I think that just the right course is being followed in handing over to the proper permanent Departments these activities of the Board with which the Government ought not permanently to dispense.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
[Woodrow Wilson]
Hon. Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman,
War Industries Board.
Allow me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of November 19th about concluding the labors of the War Industries Board, and to say that while I agree to the conclusions to which you have come and deem it best, as you do, that the activities of the Board as such should cease with the first of January next, it is with a feeling of very sincere regret that I see this admirable and efficient agency discontinued. I have constantly felt the spirit and quality of the work it has been doing, and it has been a source of great confidence to me in the prosecution of the war that the tasks of the Board were in such hands. I entirely concur in your estimate of the services of your associates, and I want to add my own conviction that the chief cause of the success of the Board and of its happy relations with the departments of the Government has been your own ability, tact, and devotion to duty. It is with the utmost regret that I accept your resignation, and I shall beg that you will not leave Washington but continue to lend us the advice which has been all along so valuable to us.
As I have told you orally, I think that just the right course is being followed in handing over to the proper permanent Departments these activities of the Board with which the Government ought not permanently to dispense.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
[Woodrow Wilson]
Hon. Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman,
War Industries Board.
Original Format
Letter
To
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965
Files
Collection
Citation
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to Bernard M. Baruch,” 1918 November 30, WWP25568, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.