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On the recordJanuary 26, 1931
Those negotiations, of course, we are hopeful will go forward but are not negotiations in which we have any direct interest at all, and which we could not be a party to otherwise than perhaps just friendly suggestions.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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