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On the recordAugust 6, 1929
The assembling of fifty thousand young men and boys from seventy different races and nationalities, in good fellowship without competition, and the self discipline which makes this possible are in themselves without precedent, and constitute, I trust, an augury for development of common ideas and friendship amongst nations.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Message to the World Scout Jamboree.

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