TLS signed “Wm. H. Taft,” three pages, 8 x 10.5, personal letterhead, June 9, 1919. Letter to newspaper correspondent Gus J. Karger, in part: "I saw Jonathan Bourne's lucubrations. If he doesn't look out, he will nominate me for the presidency…I marvel at the report of that man Raskin, whom I had never met before. He had a Zionist friend with him, and they came up and talked with me. I distinctly declined to take any side at all as between Jews who differed not so much in material plans as in the spirit of their projects [Taft strikes through the word 'persecution']. I said that with an occidental psychology, I declined to thrust myself into a field of controversy in which I did not feel myself competent to essay judgment. He has misrepresented me in a way that really surprises me. I had not the slightest idea that I was being interviewed, and I have no hesitation in saying that the interview as reported is exceedingly misleading, not only in statements that I did not make, as, for instance, that I am a Zionist, in my quotations of Dr. Philipson, and more in the failure to record what I did say in refusal to take any position at all. The conversation was in a Pullman car, while the two gentlemen stood up, and was of a most informal character. If you choose, you are at liberty out of this to correct the impression given in the interview." In very good condition, with rusty staining to the upper left corners.
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