[Released August 13, 1931. Dated August 12, 1931]
I AM PLEASED indeed to learn that you have become the publisher of the Chicago Daily News. Your thirty years of experience as an active journalist give promise that you will maintain and enhance the high traditions of the Daily News, one of America's outstanding newspapers. I congratulate the Daily News on securing your services and wish for you personally every success in your new undertaking.
HERBERT HOOVER
[Frank Knox, Chicago Daily News, Chicago, Illinois]
Note: The message was in response to a telegram, dated August 11, 1931, from Frank Knox. It was published in the August 13 issue of the Chicago Daily News.
Herbert Hoover, Message to Frank Knox, Publisher of the Chicago Daily News Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211899