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.
Herbert Hoover: “From a defense point of view our forces should be proportioned to national need and should, therefore, to some extent be…”
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Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union
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