Woodrow Wilson to James Alexander Reed

I hesitate to ask you to break in upon what must be one of the busiest weeks you have had by requesting you to come to the White House in order that I may say what it is perfectly possible for me to say in a letter. I want to thank you very warmly and sincerely for your statement made through a New York newspaper. I have felt all along the sincere honesty and independence of judgment you were exercising in this whole matter, and you may be sure that there has never been in my mind any criticism except an occasional difference of judgment. I think that things are now shaping themselves admirably, and I am quite willing to admit that the processes upon which you have insisted have contributed to that result. I feel that I can count on you from this time out to play a leading part in bringing this whole matter to a satisfactory issue, and I want you to know what satisfaction it gives me to feel that I can do this.
P. S. Pray call upon me at any time that you would like to confer about any feature of the matter.