TLS signed “Try something like this! FDR,” three pages, 8 x 10.5, State of New York Executive Chamber letterhead, May 12, 1932. Interesting letter headed “Memo for Louis,” concerning the early part of the 1932 presidential campaign. In part: “Here is a rough draft of something that should be got out in such a way that it will really be carried by the papers….You may have read some of the articles by a young man named Walter Lippmann, who is now associated with the leading Republican organ of the East—the New York Herald-Tribune….Lippmann tries, by a curious sort of misstatement of fact, to disseminate and explain away the fact that Governor Roosevelt is without doubt the popular choice of the Democratic part for the presidency. He furthermore deliberately hides the other simple fact that more Republicans would vote for Roosevelt this fall than for any other Democrat…His venom at the present time is based on three things: first, his association with Republican newspapers; secondly, his association with a rather narrow financial circle in New York City; and third, an old standing grudge against Governor Roosevelt based on the fact that many years ago Roosevelt declined to go along with some of Lippmann’s very silly and very destructive political plans…The American people are fairminded in the long run and when they see a man who is supposed to write impartial articles, go out of his way to attack viciously and untruthfully, they go out of their way to support the intended victim of these attacks.” In fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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