[Released March 8, 1932. Dated March 5, 1932]
My dear Mr. Justice:
I wish to congratulate you most heartily upon your ninety-first birthday, and to wish you every blessing.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
[Honorable Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1720 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.]
Note: The message was read at a dinner given by the Federal Bar Association in honor of the former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Holmes was unable to attend but listened to the proceedings as they were broadcast over the National Broadcasting Company radio network.
Herbert Hoover, Message to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on His 91st Birthday. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/208471