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On the recordJune 23, 1930
There are emergency and marginal cases which I have insisted should be cared for and which will be cared for, and there is the additional necessity for us to study the broader subject exhaustively before we plunge.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Statement on the World War Veterans' Bill.

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