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On the recordAugust 15, 1929
Modern highways and motor vehicles provide a basic and elastic system of communication which is most readily adjustable to the economic needs of areas hitherto poorly supplied by transportation.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Message to the Second Pan American Highway Congress.

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