Letter from Frederic S. and Adelaide Ackley to President Harry S. Truman

1129 FREDERIC STACY ACKLEY 813 SOUTH AMALFI DRIVE PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIFORNIA 122-1 Misc. Nov. 26, 1946 W yatt-Con A The President, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President: As voters and taxpayers (particularly the latter), we feel strongly that you should dissolve the Housing Administration or, at least, eliminate from it that hopelessly in- competent spendthrift, Mr. Wyatt. It is high time that a stop were put to his crim- minal waste of texpayers' money and to his fantasticaassumptions of authority over dis- bursements in the guise of loans for im- practical purposes. In this communication we are expressing the opinion of our entire family including two sons who are veterans of the late war and, themselves, victims of the housing shortage which Mr Wyatt and his agency has aggravated rather than helped. In this part of the country, private contractors are putting up conventional low-cost homes very efficiently and could do even better if it were not for government interference and blundering. You are the only one who can offer any relief at the present time without act of Congress. The country will, I am sure, be very grateful for an end to this housing bureau. Respectfully yours, 8.