Herbert Hoover actually said...

To some who are anxious over the appointment of temporary committees and commissions for advisory fact-finding, coordinating, or negotiating purposes, I may suggest that they are not a new necessity in government.

Context

Statement on the Advisory Committee on Unemployment Statistics.

07/28/1930

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