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HOOVER, Herbert. Typed letter signed ("Herbert Hoover") to Senator Wallace H. White, Jr. (1877-1952), n.p., 29 October 1934. 1 page, 4to (10½ x 7 3/16 in.), on Hoover's personal stationery, in fine condition. IN THE DEPTHS OF THE DEPRESSION, HOOVER PREDICTS VINDICATION FOR THE REPUBLICANS: "THE DAYS OF ALIBI FOR FAILURE BY LAYING IT ONTO US WILL HAVE PASSED" Two years after losing the Presidential election to Franklin Roosevelt, Hoover writes an optimistic letter in which he predicts that his administration will be vindicated and that the fortunes of the Republican Party will improve. The depression which struck the United States in 1929 was the result of a financial crisis that had been building for several years. Hoover's inability to grasp the severity of the problem and his refusal to provide direct government aid to needy businesses, subjected the President to substantial criticism. Here, in a letter to the Maine Senator, Hoover expresses his conviction that the continued growth of the crisis bodes well for the Republican Party: "The national situation does not look good either for recovery or our Party in these elections. But after this election the days of alibi for failure by laying it onto us will have passed. I presume you note that the number of unemployed for September is just about the same as September, 1932. At that date the number was decreasing. Today it is increasing." Addressing Socialist writer Upton Sinclair's campaign to be elected Governor of California, Hoover writes: "We will win against Sinclair. An increasing number of people are realizing that he is merely a skin eruption from the poison which has been poured into the national bloodstream. He would, of course, never have been heard of or nominated but for the New Deal." Hoover concludes that the New Deal has created greater political benefits: "This is the real reason we have been able to secure an open combination between sane Republicans and sane Democrats."