[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce SIGNED Herbert Hoover Document Lobbying to be the First Food Administrator

[Charles Agvent]

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HOOVER, Herbert. DOCUMENT SIGNED (DS): Statement by HERBERT HOOVER for 
release to all editions of morning papers. A scarce one-page press 
release of @300 words, SIGNED both in type and holograph by Hoover at 
the conclusion, regarding the need to pass the Fulmer Bill and to create 
the position of Food Administrator in the Roosevelt administration. 
Hoover was appointed this very position by Woodrow Wilson at the end of 
the World War I. During this time, Franklin Roosevelt said about him: 
"He is certainly a wonder, and I wish we could make him president of the 
United States." That wish did, of course, come true, and Hoover served 
during the worst economic depression in the nation's history, sans 
technology stocks. He was overwhelmingly defeated for reelection by the 
very man who wished he would become president. In part: "No responsible 
person has proposed a Food 'Czar,' nor an Angel Gabriel. What large 
sections of the country and the House Agricultural Committee have 
demanded is a Food Administrator, acting within laws passed by Congress 
and under the President. We need a manager, not a 'dictator.'" An 
interesting Hoover piece, probably limited to distribution to certain 
major newspapers, and quite unlikely that many have survived. This comes 
from the estate of an editor for a major New York newspaper. Near Fine, 
a remarkable and scarce piece. (#003452)        $1,500.00

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