Herbert Hoover actually said...

The prolongation of the depression by the succession of events in Europe, affecting as they have both commodity and security prices, has produced in some localities in the United States an apprehension wholly unjustified in view of the thousandfold resources we have for meeting any demand.

Context

Statement on Financial and Economic Problems.

10/06/1931

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