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On the recordMarch 25, 1929
Recent exposures of abuse in recommendations for Federal office, particularly in some parts of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi under which some of the Federal departments, mainly the Post Office, were misled in appointments, obviously render it impossible for the old organizations in those States to command the confidence of the administration, although many members of these organizations are not subject to criticism.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on the Reorganization of the Republican Party in the South.

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