Lot 19
Hoover, Herbert -- Printed Reading Copy of a Speech Inscribed and Signed as President, With Autograph Notes, Composition Fragments, and Annotations (1874-1964) 31st President of the United States) (1929-1933). Printed reading copy of a speech ["The Success of Recovery"] inscribed and signed, "MSS used at Detroit Oct 22 1932 / To French Strother -- From one Orator to another / with the affection of Herbert Hoover," 75 pages, 10½ x 8". With autograph notes, composition fragments, and corrections in pencil, approximately 10 pages. Some toning and minor soiling. The speech is accompanied by an Official Congressional Directory. 71st Congress, 2d Session beginning December 2, 1929. Washington, D.C.: Elmer C. Hess, 1929, 1929, 8vo, publisher's red cloth, signed by Hoover on page 285.
Edgar French Strother (1883-1933) was a newspaperman in California, where he met Herbert Hoover. When Hoover became President, he asked Strother to come to Washington and be his personal secretary. Strother's primary duty was research--gathering material to be used by the President for speeches and public papers.
President Hoover delivered his campaign speech on "The Success of Recovery" to a partisan crowd of 22,000 in Detroit's Olympia Arena. He assured his audience that the tide had turned and that "the gigantic forces of depression are today in retreat. Our measures and policies have demonstrated their effectiveness….Recovery would have been faster but for four months of paralysis during the spring months while we were defeating proposals of the Democratic House of Representatives." On Election Day, however, Hoover, his policies, and the Republican Party were repudiated. His Democratic opponent, Franklin D. Roosevelt, received nearly 23 million popular votes (57.3 percent) to Hoover's nearly 16 million (39.6 percent), and the electoral vote was 472 to 59. Democrats also won substantial majorities in both houses of Congress. Estimate Value $3,000 - UP
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