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Herbert Hoover: “The matter is not perhaps one of large importance in itself, were it not for the fact of the great number of other…”

On the recordApril 20, 1930
The matter is not perhaps one of large importance in itself, were it not for the fact of the great number of other similar proposals by the aggregate of which the principles of sound coinage are being jeopardized.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Veto of a Coinage Bill Commemorating the Gadsden Purchase.

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