Woodrow Wilson to Herbert Hoover

Title

Woodrow Wilson to Herbert Hoover

Creator

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Identifier

WWP19210

Date

1917 October 9

Description

Woodrow Wilson asks that Herbert Hoover defer the Food Campaign in order to allow maximum support for the Liberty Loan Campaign.

Source

Hoover-Wilson Correspondence, Hoover Institution, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum

Subject

United States--Politics and government--1913-1921
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence

Language

English

Text

Copy of Letter from the President in re Liberty Loan and Food Campaigns.THE WHITE HOUSE.

Dear Mr. Hoover

I think it is so exceedingly important that nothing should check or interfere with or divert the attention of the country from the Liberty Loan Campaign that I am going to take the liberty of asking you if you cannot defer your special Food Campaign until the week following, the twenty-seventh of October.

I hope that it would not cause any considerable confusion or embarrassment in your plans to do this. You may be sure I would not suggest it if I did not think it of capital importance.

Cordially and sincerely yours,
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.

Original Format

Letter

To

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/D09229.pdf

Citation

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to Herbert Hoover,” 1917 October 9, WWP19210, Hoover Institute at Stanford University Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.