Herbert Hoover actually said...

Altogether, from the above reasons, it is my belief that the theoretical benefits would not be reflected to the American farmer; that it would create profiteering; that it contains elements which would bring American agriculture to disaster.

Context

Letter to Senator Charles L. McNary on the Export Debenture Plan of Farm Relief.

04/21/1929

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