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On the recordDecember 2, 1929
From a defense point of view our forces should be proportioned to national need and should, therefore, to some extent be modified by the prospects of peace, which were never brighter than to-day.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union

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