Letter from Harry S. Truman to Edgar Hinde

BURTON K. WHEELER, MONT., CHAIRMAN ELLISON D. SMITH, s.c. WALLACE H. WHITE, JR., MAINE ROBERT F. WAGNER, N.Y. JAMES J. DAVIS, PA. ALBEN w. BARKLEY, KY. WARREN R. AUSTIN, VT. M. M. NEELY, W. VA. WILLIAM H. DIETERICH, ILL. AUGUSTINE LONERGAN, CONN. United States Senate FRED H. BROWN, N.H HOMER T. BONE, WASH. VIC DONAHEY, OHIO COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE SHERMAN MINTON, IND. HARRY S. TRUMAN, MO. CHARLES O. ANDREWS, FLA. EDWIN c. JOHNSON, COLO. HARRY H. SCHWARTZ, WYO. Washington, D. C. LISTER HILL, ALA. February 9, 1939 HENRIK SHIPSTEAD, MINN. M. W. MITCHELL, CLERK Honorable Edgar G. Hinde Postmaster Independence, Missouri Dear Edgar: Appreciated highly your good letter of the Sixth, and I am certainly sorry that you have been trying to have the flu. I hope you don't succeed. I have had to buy so many flowers in the last thirty days for people who succeeded in having it that I don't care about spending any more money right at the present time, particularly on the postmaster from Independence. I am glad you got to see Jim Mack, and I also appreciated most highly your comment on Uncle Willie. Headline hunters are the same the world over. It makes no difference whether his name is Theodore, Franklin, Lloyd or Allen -- they are all just alike. I had lunch yesterday with the Governor of New Jersey, Harry Moore, who is a regular fellow, and he invited me to spend a week-end with him at Sea Girt next spring at the Governor's Mansion. He gets $20,000 a year as Governor of New Jersey, two mansions kept up by the State, and $17,000 a year as an expense account. He told Louie Schwellenbach and me that he would just as soon spend some of the $17,000 on a couple of Senators as to spend it on his Republican New Jersey Legislature. I think we will probably accept his invi- tation. Your campaign suggestions are always thankfully received, and I will appreciate your being entirely frank with them. I appreciate most highly what the Mayor is doing, and I believe it is helping considerably. Remember me to all the gang and tell that bunch of high-binders that I gave three or four Congressmen a very high- priced lesson in how not to call a few days ago. Sincerely yours, HST/cb Harry S. Truman Thing