Herbert Hoover actually said...

This time the Nation has realized that as a sound economic policy, the prudent expedition of construction could be to an important degree used as a balance wheel to maintain security of employment, to maintain consumption of goods, to thus contribute to economic stability and above all to relieve hardship.

Context

Address to the Governors' Conference.

06/29/1930

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