I AM GLAD of this opportunity to express my admiration of your distinguished service to mankind through your scientific speculations and researches, and my hope that your visit to the United States has been as satisfying to you as it has been gratifying to the American people.
HERBERT HOOVER
[Professor Albert Einstein, Hotel Astor, New York City]
Note: The message was read at a dinner sponsored by the American Palestine Campaign, held in the Hotel Astor in New York City. Professor Einstein, world-renowned physicist and exponent of the theory of relativity, was completing an 11-week visit to the United States.
Herbert Hoover, Message to a Dinner Honoring Albert Einstein. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207436