I WILL be obliged if you will express my cordial greetings to the meeting this evening of the National Eucharistic Congress at which I am informed you will preside and my appreciation of the value of spiritual ideals and of religious observance in the life of the nation which are indispensable foundations of the social order and of enduring political institutions.
HERBERT HOOVER
Note: The message, sent by telegram to His Eminence George Cardinal Mundelein, Bishop of Omaha, in care of the Right Reverend Joseph F. Rummel, Omaha, Nebraska, was read at an assembly of the congress in Omaha, Nebr.
Herbert Hoover, Message to the National Eucharistic Congress. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211791