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Herbert Hoover: “I have a high appreciation of the contribution of the other professions but the engineers, I insist, have a contribution…”

On the recordApril 7, 1930
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.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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

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