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Herbert Hoover: No tariff bill has ever been enacted or ever will be enacted under the present system that will be perfect.

On the recordJune 15, 1930
No tariff bill has ever been enacted or ever will be enacted under the present system that will be perfect.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Statement on the Tariff Bill.

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