Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and J. Vivian Truman
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OCR Page 1 of 2August 19, 1948
Dear Vivian:
I appreciated yours of the seventeenth very much about
Ferd Owens.
I was talking to the Secretary of Agriculture about him
just the other day and I hope things work out in a satis-
factory manner. There seems to have been some rather
fundamental misunderstanding between Ferd and the
Department of Agriculture, brought about I think by Ferd's
inability to understand that bureaucrats are hard to deal
with and most obstreperous in some instances, They
don't understand straight forward dealings of an honest
man - they are always looking for a bug under a ship
and, of course, the fact that Ferd got himself mixed up
with the Mexican Government without the backing of his
own Government is really what caused the trouble. Had
he made arrangements in the first place through the
regular channels, I think, the matter could have been well
handled.
I hope everything from now on will work out in a satisfactory
manner because Ferd is a good man.
Sincerely,
Harry
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