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Herbert Hoover: “No incident and no part in these great events, which have echoed and reechoed throughout the world for a century and a…”

On the recordFebruary 21, 1932
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.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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

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