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Herbert Hoover: The Gridiron Club platform would also contain constructive planks—for instance, it would insist that there must be more…

On the recordDecember 12, 1930
The Gridiron Club platform would also contain constructive planks—for instance, it would insist that there must be more humor, more satire, more within government.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Address to the Gridiron Club

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