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Herbert Hoover: “I sometimes think that this is the greatest value of modern explorers.”

On the recordJune 19, 1930
I sometimes think that this is the greatest value of modern explorers.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks on Presenting the Special Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

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