April 21, 1929
[Released April 21, 1929. Dated April 20, 1929]
I WISH to felicitate the Jews of America upon their nationwide and wholehearted cooperation in the ORT campaign for the industrial and general economic reconstruction of the distressed Jews of Eastern Europe and to extend my greetings and best wishes to those gathered at the ORT Reconstruction Banquet in New York to further this humane program.
HERBERT HOOVER
Note: The message was conveyed in a telegram to Paul Felix Warburg, New York City.
Herbert Hoover, Message Endorsing the ORT Jewish Relief Campaign. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/208915