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Herbert Hoover: The recommendations which I here lay before the Congress are designed to meet these needs by strengthening financial…

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The recommendations which I here lay before the Congress are designed to meet these needs by strengthening financial, industrial, and agricultural life through the medium of our existing institutions, and thus to avoid the entry of the Government into competition with private business.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Hoover outlines his recommendations to Congress aimed at strengthening various sectors of the economy without government competition.

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