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Herbert Hoover: “To join in this effort and to respond to this appeal becomes a measure of your faith in our country; it will be the…”

On the recordMarch 5, 1932
To join in this effort and to respond to this appeal becomes a measure of your faith in our country; it will be the touchstone of your loyalty and of your sense of individual responsibility for the welfare of the whole community; it is your opportunity to prove again that the private citizen of the United States in the exercise of his own independent judgment and his own free will, coerced by no authority save his conscience and moved only by his own patriotic pride, can be counted upon to meet every emergency in the Nation's economy and to rout every foe of the Nation's security.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California
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Radio Address on the Hoarding of Currency.

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