Herbert Hoover actually said...

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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Address to the Gridiron Club

12/12/1930

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