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Herbert Hoover: “I suggested that as the solution of the Muscle Shoals problem was a matter of major interest to the States of Tennessee…”

On the recordDecember 16, 1931
I suggested that as the solution of the Muscle Shoals problem was a matter of major interest to the States of Tennessee and Alabama these States should set up a commission of their own representatives to cooperate with a like commission appointed by me to consider the disposition of the Muscle Shoals project.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Message to the Congress Transmitting the Report of the Muscle Shoals Commission.

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