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On the recordOctober 18, 1931
It is not too much to say that without Washington the war for independence would not have been won.
Said by
Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address on the 150th Anniversary of the Surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia.

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