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Herbert Hoover: Our official life would no doubt be confined to those things that furnish the raw material for news or entertainment…

On the recordDecember 12, 1930
Our official life would no doubt be confined to those things that furnish the raw material for news or entertainment, humor, satire, exposure, wit, eccentricities, combats, attacks, or fights and failures in government or politics.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Address to the Gridiron Club

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