Herbert Hoover actually said...

They are symbols, fitting and lasting symbols, of the ideals for which the men of Cornell, of all our universities and colleges, of our whole country, fought and died.

Context

Radio Remarks on the Dedication of the Cornell University War Memorial

05/22/1931

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