Herbert Hoover to Woodrow Wilson
Title
Herbert Hoover to Woodrow Wilson
Creator
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Identifier
WWP19373
Date
1918 March 22
Description
Herbert Hoover sends Woodrow Wilson a reply to Colonel Hudson’s telegram about meat production and corn prices.
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
Mr. President
I return herewith suggested draft of reply to Col. Hudson’stelegram of March 20th which you kindly sent to me for preparation. All these gentlemen are hard to please. They base their troubles in raising animals on the price of corn and when corn falls they complain about that commodity. In fact, many commodities are falling as the result of more nearly normal transportation and merchandising conditions and I seem to have mud slinging both ways. I enclose a page from the Congressional Record yesterday and my reply thereto which I would indeed be glad if you would read as it develops an incident of which more complaints will no doubt reach you. It also indicates the heart-breaking injustice of ctriticism based on reckless statements without even the human courtesy of a telephonic inquiry into the truth.
Yours faithfully,
[Herbert Hoover]
I return herewith suggested draft of reply to Col. Hudson’stelegram of March 20th which you kindly sent to me for preparation. All these gentlemen are hard to please. They base their troubles in raising animals on the price of corn and when corn falls they complain about that commodity. In fact, many commodities are falling as the result of more nearly normal transportation and merchandising conditions and I seem to have mud slinging both ways. I enclose a page from the Congressional Record yesterday and my reply thereto which I would indeed be glad if you would read as it develops an incident of which more complaints will no doubt reach you. It also indicates the heart-breaking injustice of ctriticism based on reckless statements without even the human courtesy of a telephonic inquiry into the truth.
Yours faithfully,
[Herbert Hoover]
Original Format
Letter
To
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Files
Citation
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964, “Herbert Hoover to Woodrow Wilson,” 1918 March 22, WWP19373, Hoover Institute at Stanford University Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.