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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 8
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il: because my enti:2 poli: * J} record has been review,
in the pre. of the nation; und becau my opinions have been
given to the important committees of both¢ the Senate and the
House so that your departmen' would have no difticulty in findin
facts sufficient to be convi.ced of my unquestioned loyalty to
cur Country and its Constitution, that I now write to see what
may be the motivating force behind the visit given me by your
agents on sugust Sth. ;
I am authorized by California to teach constitutional law
I filed a petition with the U. S. Supreme Court.in 1934 to banis
the name of the communist party from our California ballot becau
of its treasonable plafform, and lectured widely on that subdject
I filed suit in 1933 against the privately-owned federal reserve
banks to sgorge their unlawfully held gold tuzt into the Unite
States easury; and Gf finally, through letters to the Presiden
and lirs. Roosevelt (my personal acquaintance) and through dou
page AOPEN LETTERS TO CCNGRESS" in my own magazine, copies of wh
were Sent to every member of the Senate and the House, was enabl
to get a resolution through Congress, signed by the President wi
by Congress took title to all gold, gold coins, gold currencies
and gold bullion which the reserve banks had taken away from the
american people; ani this resuited in a saving of nearly THREE
Billion Dollars of profit on this gold due to the increased pric
of same. It was from this saving that Secretary Morganthau set u
the Two-Billion*Dollars Stabalization Fund. I have a letter fron
President Roosevelt in connection with this important matter,
Signed by his honor. Ts
Born in the State of Iowa, from whence came your worthy
name-sake--Hon. Herbert Hoover, I have been active all of my lif
in defense of our smerican ideals and our Constitutional form of
Government. But that some corporate interests, having the greate
"race-track" concessions on earth, whose oxes may have been gore
should scream "stop thief" in ordér to cover up their own tracks
is not to be wondered at.
It is because of my unbroken record as an ardent supporte
of our form of Government, and that sLCNE, and being interested
NO foreign country, that I take this occasion to ask you to let
me know what the motive was on the part of your department to
look into a purported political vefore Kenly Which, so far as I
know, was still-born many years before Yemly Harbor.
Sommending you personally for th ne type of service yc
have given to our Government and our People, I remain
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spectfully,
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