Letter from Harry S. Truman to Eleanor Roosevelt

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON J. TRUMAN June 5, 1952 Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: I certainly did appreciate your good letter of May thirty-first regarding the McCarran and Walters Bills. They are both very bad Bills and I think we would be better off with no legislation than the strait-jacket they are endeavoring to give us with that legislation. They are still working on the Conference Report but I am of the opinion that they can't get either one of those two measures in shape to make it a good law. Of course, I can never publicly say what I expect to do until the legislation is on my desk but I'll say to you in confidence that if either one of those Bills comes up here in the present form, it won't become law if I can prevent it. We have sent messages to the Congress with a proposed Bill for the future increase in immigration quotas for the displaced persons up to 300,000. I don't know how far we will get with it but I hope it will come to my desk before the Congress quits. Sincerely yours Harphanan Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Val-Kil Cottage Hyde Park, Dutchess County New York