Herbert Hoover actually said...

I CAN NOT too deeply express my appreciation of Your Majesty's kind message and do assure you it was a pleasure to me and my fellow officials to meet the officers of the Japanese training squadron.

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Message to Emperor Hirohito on Japanese Officers and Midshipmen Visiting in Washington, D.C.

10/11/1929

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