[Rarebooks] FS: Document SIGNED by Herbert Hoover to create the position of Food Administrator in the Roosevelt administration

[Charles Agvent]

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 
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. 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. Folds from mailing. Near Fine, a 
remarkable and scarce piece. (#019241)        $750

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