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Herbert Hoover: As a nation we have grown to a giant strength and power which is so new and vast that we can only vaguely comprehend it.

On the recordApril 13, 1930
As a nation we have grown to a giant strength and power which is so new and vast that we can only vaguely comprehend it.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address to the Daughters of the American Revolution.

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