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Herbert Hoover: “The problem that we are considering here is not primarily a system of health or education or morals.”

On the recordMarch 9, 1930
The problem that we are considering here is not primarily a system of health or education or morals.
Said by
Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.

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