TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.25, personal letterhead, February 3, 1954. Letter to John W. Snyder, his Secretary of the Treasury from 1946–1953. In full: “I appreciated very much your letter of the second. I am sure the newspapers take a lot of delight in mis-quoting you as they do me every time they have an opportunity. I like very much what you said about ‘Politics being like religion; that things just naturally sound better when your own preacher is saying them.’ I hope it all works out all right. I would be most happy to hear from you whenever you feel like writing to me. I had a note from Charles Sawyer yesterday in which he said that he had been in communication with you. That is the first time I have heard from Charlie for some months but he seemed to be in fine shape.” Under his signature, Truman adds a handwritten postscript which reads, “Let me hear how the eys [sic] come out.” A rusty paperclip mark and impressions to top edge, otherwise fine condition.
Accompanied by Snyder’s unsigned retained carbon copy of his February 2, 1954, letter to Truman, which reads, in part: “In a talk in Cleveland Saturday I jokingly said that I found that ‘politics were a lot like religion; that things just naturally sounded better when your own preacher was saying them.’ The papers apparently have taken this attitude. I find they are also continuing to freely misquote when it serves their purpose. The next day after my talk at the Luncheon I read two or three remarkable things that I was supposed to have said, which I do not find either in my script nor in the tape recording. I don’t suppose you ever had this happen to you. I am anxious to know how you are getting along with the book. I am very anxious to see how it is shaping up. At the present time I am planning another effort to have my eyes worked on the latter part of this month…” Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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