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On the recordDecember 11, 1931
A revered President, long since dead, once told me that there was no solution to this relation of the White House to the press; that there never would be a President who could satisfy the press until he was 20 years dead.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Address to the Gridiron Club

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