Herbert Hoover actually said...

The Secretary of State is authorized to prescribe additional rules and regulations for the administration of the Foreign Service, not inconsistent herewith, and the use of the regulations in this order as regulations of the Department of State under different titles and numerical designations is hereby expressly authorized.

06/07/1931

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