TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, May 25, 1954. Letter to Judge Oscar C. Dancy, in full: “I certainly did appreciate your good letter very, very much. It is customary for the President to have all sorts of bricks thrown at him, and it is also customary for the people eventually to find out they were bricks and not good wishes. You seem to have the situation very well analyzed. I am enclosing you a copy of the speech which I made at Atlantic City.” In very good to fine condition, with scattered creasing, and a small tear directly under Truman's first name.



In 1948, Harry Truman, himself a former Missouri county judge, called Dancy ‘the county judge from Texas’ when Dancy went to the Oval Office; Truman said he wanted ‘to meet a county judge who spent more money than I did.’ During Dancy’s lengthy tenure, he spent more than $10 million on paving roads in Cameron County. He was a believer in low local taxes, known for his ability to procure funds from the state and national governments to pay for programs that supported the family farm and provided flood control for the Rio Grande Valley, and paid for many of the roads.