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Last week the White House was all abustle with excited preparations for President Hoover's "I-accept-the-nomination" speech. The President got back from the printer the first proofs of his address keynoting his campaign, took them to the Rapidan camp for weekend revision. Right up to the last minute only his closest political friends knew what position, if any, he would take on the tortuous Republican Prohibition plank...
...fire warmed the President & guests at his Rapidan camp over the weekend. He rested from the nervous tension incident to calling out the Army to evacuate the Bonus Expeditionary Force (see col. 2). The highway from Washington was scoured by Virginia troopers in flashing white cars to see that the President was not accosted or molested by straggling Bonus marchers...
...President motored to his Rapidan camp for a long weekend. From newspapers dropped by plane he carefully read the Roosevelt speech of acceptance at the Convention. Then he took pencil & paper and began blocking out his own acceptance speech to be delivered later this summer from the South Portico of the White House...
Early Sunday morning Theodore Joslin, Hoover secretary, got a telephone call in Washington ordering him immediately to the camp. A White House car sped him to the Rapidan where the President handed him another statement for the Press. He raced back to the Capital, started up the well-oiled White House mimeographs, summoned newsmen...
President Hoover's remarks from the Rapidan were part of the White House offensive against the Democratic relief bill in the House. Above all the President wants R. F. C. to handle all relief loans. Therefore he prefaced last week's statement with a cheery estimate of what R. F. C. had accomplished in the 14 weeks of its existence. Loans authorized totalled about $670,000,000. Of this sum $500,000,000 went to 3,000 banks, mostly in tiny towns, and to 1,000 other financial institutions. Said the President...