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Herbert Hoover: “Pacts and treaties have not always precluded the tragic suffering of men, women, and children.”

On the recordApril 13, 1930
Pacts and treaties have not always precluded the tragic suffering of men, women, and children.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Address to the Daughters of the American Revolution.

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