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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 12, 1929

Our form of government can succeed only by cooperation--not only by cooperation within the administrative arm of the Government and cooperation with Congress, but also by cooperation with the press, cooperation with business, and the cooperation in social leadership.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 12, 1929

The ideal solution, of course, would be to excite the press without exciting the country.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 12, 1929

It is progress of and service of a nation in the upbuilding of the institutions of freedom; its contribution to the growth of liberty, the development of humane relations, the advancement of the individual man--which measures the soul and might of nations.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 12, 1929

It never has been and ought not to be the policy of the United States to intervene by force to secure or maintain contracts between our citizens and foreign states or their citizens.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 12, 1929

If the President will allow himself to be quoted as saying that there are 49,200,000 cows in the United States, that appears to be exciting news.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 12, 1929

I sometimes wonder how our country can earn its living so arduously and successfully and at the same time do all the reading that it seems to do.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 11, 1929

Ten days ago I made rather a full statement on the purpose of the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament, on which [p.67] Ambassador [Hugh] Gibson represents us.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 11, 1929

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy or remove any feature of this Monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 11, 1929

Someone also has asked what I propose to do on the headwaters of the Rapidan this summer.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 11, 1929

Now, Therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the act of Congress entitled, 'An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities,' approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225), do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws and set apart as a national monument all those pieces and parcels of land in Grand County, State of Utah, shown as the Arches National Monument upon the diagram hereto annexed and made a part hereof.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 11, 1929

I replied to the committee that I would at once study the draft and would confer with them about it, probably tomorrow.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 10, 1929

The need for college graduates in State and National politics is simply the need for trained minds and formed characters that exists in all departments of modern life.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 10, 1929

The increasingly complex structure of the society requires more and more of the technical skill and of the cultural background that the colleges undertake to provide.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 10, 1929

As politics is but one aspect of the social order, its need of men of special educational equipment is as obvious as this need is now in business or the professions.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 8, 1929

It is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 4608 dated March 10, 1927, withdrawing among other lands the public lands in T. 45 N., R. 89 W., 6th P.M., Wyoming, pending a resurvey, be and the same is hereby revoked as to the above mentioned township.

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