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Article: TROY BOYS' CLUB FINDS LETTER FROM HERBERT HOOVER.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 15, 1988
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Byline: Joe Picchi Staff writer
What caught Lawrence Bailey's eye was the printed name at the top of the handwritten letter that he was about to throw away from the old files at the Troy Boys' Club.
The name read "Herbert Hoover."
Bailey, the club's director, read through the brief message and determined it came from the man who served as the nation's 31st president.
The undated letter expressed appreciation to Boys' Club members for their greetings on his birthday. Hoover died on Oct. 20, 1964, at the age of 90.
"Some of us oldsters have learned that we keep younger by the touch of youngsters," said Hoover in the letter that ...