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Herbert Hoover: But our first duty as a nation is to put our governmental house in order--national, State, and local.

On the recordJanuary 7, 1932
But our first duty as a nation is to put our governmental house in order--national, State, and local.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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The President's News Conference

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