“The fear of failure should not deter one”

Dwight Morrow writes President Coolidge: August 6, 1927.

Dwight Morrow, Coolidge’s Amherst classmate, and, by now, a prominent figure on Wall Street, writes the president about Morrow’s potential diplomatic posting in Mexico. Morrow says that, if the position is offered, he will accept. Morrow expresses optimism that he could improve Mexican-American relations, contrary to the more pessimistic opinion of other Americans. At the time, Mexico was in turmoil. The country had been engulfed in revolution and civil war for more than a decade. Morrow would serve as ambassador to Mexico starting later that year.