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Herbert Hoover: I recommend that the Congress enact the necessary legislation authorizing and empowering the Secretary of State to…

On the recordDecember 19, 1930
I recommend that the Congress enact the necessary legislation authorizing and empowering the Secretary of State to effect the modification of the boundary line as recommended by him.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Message to the Congress Recommending the Modification of the Boundary Line of the Panama Canal Zone.

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