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Herbert Hoover: “Such forces as we need to put on the east coast we can handle from Panama and Guantanamo in a third of the…”

On the recordApril 16, 1931
Such forces as we need to put on the east coast we can handle from Panama and Guantanamo in a third of the time--probably a tenth of the time--that we could handle them from the west coast.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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