[Released December 24, 1930. Dated December 20, 1930]
My dear Uncle Robert:
Please give the children my affectionate greetings when they have their party on the Steamship Leviathan on December 24th, and my best wishes for a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
[Uncle Robert, President, Uncle Robert Foundation, Inc., 16 East Fifteenth Street, New York City]
Note: The message was read at the annual Christmas party sponsored, since 1924, by the Uncle Robert Foundation. Uncle Robert was a popular children's radio entertainer.
Herbert Hoover, Message to a Yuletide Party for the Handicapped Children of New York City. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211138