Fishing is the only labor or recreation open to a President in which both the press and the public are prepared to concede privacy.
Herbert Hoover: “Fishing is the only labor or recreation open to a President in which both the press and the public are prepared to…”
On the recordApril 12, 1929
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Address to the Gridiron Club.
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