[Released June 16, 1930. Dated June 14, 1930]
PLEASE EXPRESS to the forty-fifth annual convention of the National Editorial Association my cordial greetings and my deep appreciation of the value of their service to the daily and weekly information of the public and for their leadership in the formation of public opinion which is so indispensable in the conduct of a democracy.
HERBERT HOOVER
Note: The message, sent to L. C. Hall, president of the National Editorial Association, was read at the opening session of the convention held at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Wis. It was also printed in the June 21, 1930, issue of Editor and Publisher.
Herbert Hoover, Message to the National Editorial Association. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210689