Herbert Hoover actually said...

I feel especially honored that the association should, through the beneficence of Mr. Lauer, have established a new distinction among engineers, and should have designated me as its first recipient.

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

04/07/1930

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