Message to the Annual Conventions of the American Newspaper Publishers and the Associated Press.
[Released April 20, 1929. Dated April 18, 1929]
To the Press in Convention assembled in New York April 22, 1929:
I appreciate the cooperation that the press has given me in its efficient handling of the news, so necessary to the success of our form of government, with its reliance upon public opinion rounded upon accurate knowledge of the facts.
HERBERT HOOVER
President of the United States
Note: The message was conveyed in a letter to Editor and Publisher.
On April 22, 1929, President Hoover addressed the Associated Press in person (see Item 47).
Herbert Hoover, Message to the Annual Conventions of the American Newspaper Publishers and the Associated Press. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/208809