Herbert Hoover actually said...

And its ideals are clear: that by cooperation and not by compulsion it should seek to assist in maintaining and giving the impulse of progress to commerce and industry in a nation whose successful economic life underlies advancement in every other field.

Context

Remarks Upon Laying the Cornerstone of the New Department of Commerce Building.

06/09/1929

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