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- GLC#
- GLC00782.10-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- July 8, 1933
- Author/Creator
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
- Title
- to Henry L. Stoddard
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 26 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- The Great Depression The New Deal
In a letter marked "Personal," Hoover writes critically about President Roosevelt and the New Deal. He comments on an economic conference and going off the gold standard. He provides a list of "misrepresentations and illusions held out from Washington" about New Deal policies that the American public is being fooled by, most of them pertaining to economic matters. He decries a lack of "encouragement to individual prudence and thrift, any encouragement to any holding to moral anchors in all of this situation" and blames it on the New Deal, an era "where white rabbits please and thrill the audience." Letter typed on personal stationery.
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