August 17, 1932
[Released August 17, 1932. Dated August 13, 1932]
My dear Mr. Secretary:
I will be obliged if, in your address at Winchester, New Hampshire, next Wednesday, you will convey my cordial greetings to the audience and express my deep sense of the value of General Leonard Wood's services to country as soldier and administrator.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
[Hon. Frederick H. Payne, Assistant Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.]
Note: Assistant Secretary Payne read the message at the dedication ceremonies a memorial to General Wood.
Herbert Hoover, Message in Tribute to General Leonard Wood. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207393