Herbert Hoover actually said...

No incident and no part in these great events, which have echoed and reechoed throughout the world for a century and a half, can be separated from the name and the dominant leadership of George Washington.

Context

Address to a Joint Session of Congress Opening the Celebration of the Bicentennial of the Birth of George Washington

02/21/1932

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