July 20, 1929
ON BEHALF OF my fellow countrymen and in my own name, I extend to Your Excellency congratulations on this Independence Day of Colombia.
HERBERT HOOVER
[His Excellency Miguel Abadia Mendez, The President of Colombia, Bogota]
Herbert Hoover, Message to President Miguel Abadia Mendez on Colombia's Independence Day. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210926