[Released April 25, 1931. Dated April 8, 1931]
My dear Mr. Levine:
I am glad to learn of the honor that you and your associates of the Bronx House Committee are paying to the Honorable Henry Morgenthan on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, and I will be obliged if you will express to Mr. Morgenthau my hearty congratulations upon his anniversary and my warm appreciation of his many services in behalf of humanity and of high ideals.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mr. Joseph M. Levine, 30 East 42nd Street, New York City]
Note: The message was made public at a dinner honoring Henry Morgenthau, former United States Ambassador to Turkey. The dinner was held in the Bronx House in New York City, a social settlement founded by Mr. Morgenthau in 1911.
Herbert Hoover, Message to a Dinner Honoring Henry Morgenthau. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/212332