Letter, Mrs. Ora Rood to Franklin D. Roosevelt

2526 October 22, 1940 My dear Mrs. Rood: The President requests me to thank you for your letter of October sixteenth. He wants you to know how much he appreciates your expres- sions of friendliness and loyalty, and that he is grateful for the confidence in his leadership which your words imply. Very sincerely yours, STEPHEN EARLY Secretary to the President Mrs. Ora Rood, 4337 15th Avenue, Northeast, Seattle, Washington. get h Seattle, Irn. October 161940. Dearely I Beloved President 308 Mallog apt as usual. And. surely admire the kind chings that am reading the Seattle Post Intelligencertion are said about you by the Paper, and by the people everywhere out here. my vote goes to you pecause we need you so disperately at this time to guide us as you have so well done throug h che last years. (2) you know so thoroughly the questions of the Mis Roosebeltis here today. deplomatic situations of today, and the answers (3) ecause you are a good man that we can trust loyal to the nation in every thing. Clean in y our home life. The United States of course is a big proposition to handle. and does some bone head things. But it is a good sound nut at heart. We have some so distressing Labor quarrels ont here, too often and I shink it is caused by foreign a gitations who have every thing to gain and nothing to loose by sturring up trouble. Please keep well, our welfare also depends on it, as well as yourself to keep in health, But let others also help shoulder the burdens. Don't let them black on you, with all nespect. mis Osa Rood 4337 15th are nE.