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Herbert Hoover: Never was the lure of the rosy path to every panacea and of easy ways to imagined security more tempting.

On the recordMay 29, 1931
Never was the lure of the rosy path to every panacea and of easy ways to imagined security more tempting.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Memorial Day Address at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

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