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Herbert Hoover: It has carried us in a century and a half to leadership of the economic world.

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It has carried us in a century and a half to leadership of the economic world.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Hoover notes the economic leadership achieved by the United States over a century and a half.

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