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Herbert Hoover: The very first service to them must be to place our own house in order; to restore our own domestic prosperity.

On the recordJune 14, 1931
The very first service to them must be to place our own house in order; to restore our own domestic prosperity.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address to the Indiana Republican Editorial Association at Indianapolis.

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