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HOOVER, HERBERT. Graphite drawing, unsigned, an abstract doodle, on a
scrap of heavy paper. On the verso is a note signed byWhite House Chief Usher Irving H.
Hoover, in pencil: “Scratch, made by President Hoover while talking on the phone, from
my desk, in the Ushers room at The White House, to Senator Allan of Kansas at the
Capitol,April 11th, 1930, at 1:30 P.M.” 5
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[Washington, 11 April 1930]
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Irving H. Hoover was a long-time White House employee; he was not a close relative of
President Hoover.
Provenance: Irving Hoover estate;Alexander Autographs, October 21, 2000.
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HOOVER, HERBERT.Typed Letter Signed, to Josiah T. Rose, intimating partial
responsibility for aspects of the Moscow Declaration and questioning Wendell Willkie’s
campaign methods. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; horizontal folds. (TFC)
NewYork, 2 November 1943
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. . . I am glad that you liked the speech from Kansas City.
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The Declaration from Moscow follows the line which Gibson and I have been laying out fairly
closely, so that apparently we have had some effect, although we will never have any credit.
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The Willkie forces are of course carrying on a great publicity blitz. His off-the-record talks,
however, to Party leaders at Saint Louis and again to the Congressmen, have been very costly
to him.The whole situation is very confused, but will be somewhat cleared up by the election in
New York. I am in hopes that the Republican will be elected as that will give the Party
strength; if he is not, it will be a blow to Dewey’s prestige which will probably advanceWillkie
to first place.
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I found that the sentiment for MacArthur in the Midwest exceeds that for Willkie by a con-
siderable amount.”
In the 1940 book
The Problems of Lasting Peace,
Hoover proposed that an international
organization charged with preserving peace be established immediately, regardless of whether the
War had concluded.The United Nations was founded four years later, in the winter of 1944,
at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference inWashington, DC.