Letter, Herbert Hoover to Franklin Roosevelt
Original Exhibition Caption: During the dark months between FDR's election in November 1932 and his inauguration as President on March 4, 1933, the nation's economic depression went from bad to worse. On several occasions, President Herbert Hoover encouraged the President-elec...
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Feb 28.1933.
THE WHITE HOUSE
820
WASHINGTON
Dear me Presedent Elect-
It is duty to inform you that
the funancial my situation has become
more and the lock how of
when
l confidence wrote to on February 18L new
been extended grave funder Iam
confident the line sug a gested at that tenu
you declaration would now
contrebute ow greatf to restore hard confederce whips to
and would save losses and
melleous of people.
-upon he bases of wedent fasts such - that it es
my purpose however isto wage that you he
gravity of he situation he co-orderate is aren of the
that
government deserable should be in serviow questly water
wegently needed but will not be completed
after march 4h. There es much leg
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