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President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald concluded secret agreements on the Rapidan. The Senate was never permitted to see the full record of their naval negotiations...
Charges made against the President: 1) he held up naval building before the London Conference, "a gesture not commensurately copied by other prospective participants" in the parley; 2) he "admittedly" reached agreements with Prime Minister MacDonald on the Rapidan "that have never officially been divulged in their entirety"; 3) his delegates at London "yielded to the British what President Coolidge had refused to yield to them at Geneva in 1927" (i. e. big cruisers for small ones); 4) he refused to let the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in executive session see the full record of his negotiations on the London...
...then tossed it aside. It contained, he said, -'flagrant misstatements, evidently deliberate," and was beneath his notice. He pointed out that the full record of the London negotiations had been offered the Foreign Relations Committee, providing no publicity ensued. He scoffed at its notion of "secret agreements" on the Rapidan...
...Departing possibly for the last time this year for his Rapidan camp, the President took with him some of his closest friends: Mark Sullivan, his favorite Washington correspondent; Associate Justice & Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone; Dr. & Mrs. Vernon Kellogg...
...Morgan & Co.). The rich paintings (Rubens, Rembrandt, Reynolds) on the walls may have held their attention for a moment, but an air of tension and expectancy forbade anything except the business on hand. The bankers waited for one man who was speeding toward them from his camp on the Rapidan. President Hoover, discarding all precedent, entered the apartment shortly after his return to Washington. He soon laid before them a Hoover Super Plan to restore business confidence...