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Herbert Hoover: I shall make suggestions for handling the present-year deficit in the Budget message, but I do not favor encroachment…

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I shall make suggestions for handling the present-year deficit in the Budget message, but I do not favor encroachment upon the statutory reduction of the public debt.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Hoover expresses his intent to address the budget deficit while maintaining a commitment to reduce public debt.

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