PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 08/19/1932 - HFSID 32722

HERBERT HOOVER
Herbert Hoover sends a letter of thanks for the letter.
Typed Letter Signed: "Herbert Hoover" as President, 1p, 7x9. The White House, Washington, 1932 August 19. To Mr. Mark L. Requa, Santa Barbara, California. In full: "It is difficult for me to reply to your letter of August 14th. I want you to know how deeply I do appreciate the whole feeling and sentiment that lie behind it. Yours faithfully," Mark L. Requa, was a mining associate and friends of the Herbert Hoover family. Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) served as the 31st U.S. President from 1929-1933. Blamed by many voters for the Great Depression, he had been defeated in his bid for re-election by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover, a capable administrator, had headed the Food Administration to provide relief to Europe and Russia during and after WWI and served as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (1921-1928). The second President to attain the age of 90 years (John Adams was the first), Hoover lived a record 31 years after leaving the presidency. During his "retirement", he was appointed to commissions to oversee government agencies by Presidents Harry S Truman (1947) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953). Hoover also wrote a number of books and articles. On visits to New York City, the Hoovers made their home at the Waldorf-Astoria at 301 Park Avenue. On a visit there in 1944, Mrs. Hoover suffered a heart attack and died suddenly at the age of 68. The ex-President spent the last years of his life in an apartment at the Waldorf-Astoria Towers. Creased with folds, not near signature. File holes at upper margin. Fine condition.