Herbert Hoover actually said...

I have a high appreciation of the contribution of the other professions but the engineers, I insist, have a contribution to make to public service and they have an obligation to give that contribution.

Context

Address to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on Receiving the First Hoover Gold Medal

04/07/1930

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