SOLD Hoover Thanks a Republican National Committeeman For His Views During the Depression
Frederick S. Peck was a member of the Committee from Rhode Island.
Herbert Hoover. Typed Letter Signed as President on White House letterhead, Washington, May 8, 1930, to Frederick S. Peck, a member of the Republican National Committee from Rhode Island. “I have your kind letter. I wish to thank you very much indeed for your views on this most difficult question.”
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Herbert Hoover. Typed Letter Signed as President on White House letterhead, Washington, May 8, 1930, to Frederick S. Peck, a member of the Republican National Committee from Rhode Island. “I have your kind letter. I wish to thank you very much indeed for your views on this most difficult question.”
What had been the subject of Peck’s letter to Hoover? There are three good possibilities. The first and most natural one is that it relates to measures being taken or contemplated for dealing with the Depression. In May 1930, Hoover’s position was "I am convinced we have now passed the worst." The second is the nomination of John J. Parker to the U.S. Supreme Court. Parker’s nomination initially won wide support, but labor groups and the NAACP argued that the judge’s record was hostile toward unions and African-Americans. In May 1930 the Senate defeated the nomination. The last is that the letter relates to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which had Hoover’s support and was then being debated in the House of Representatives. It passed and he signed it in June.
Higher tariff rates did little to help the American economy as it swooned at the end of 1930 and beyond.
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