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Herbert Hoover: Such notes and discussions are necessarily passing and tentative, and they represent that confidential relation of the…

On the recordDecember 15, 1930
Such notes and discussions are necessarily passing and tentative, and they represent that confidential relation of the President with Government officers which should be preserved.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Message to the Senate About a Report From the President's Emergency Commission for Employment.

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