Woodrow Wilson to Richard Heath Dabney
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Thank you for sending me Tucker's letter. I think I understand perfectly his disconnection from the business failure at the Jamestown Exposition. But I am none the less glad to have the facts clearly stated.I need not tell you what a joy it was to see you. I am distressed to hear of the trouble you have been having with your nose, and am glad to believe that you are near the end of it. Mrs. Wilson and I did not notice anything particularly out of the way, only I had an uneasy feeling that you were not looking very well.The trip to Staunton did me no harm at all; indeed I came back feeling better than when I started. I have learned since I returned that there has been some suggestion in some of the papers, perhaps in the Times-Dispatch, that it was not very good taste on my part to give the talk I did to the machine men in the State. I hope this is not the general impression, because my friends will have to get used to my way of always having a dart for somebody, and when I speak I try to say it in as good natured a way as I can contrive on the spur of the moment. Indeed the whole passage was on the spur of the moment.
Affectionately yours,Woodrow Wilson