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On the recordJune 16, 1931
We have today taken part in a remarkable gathering in Springfield to do honor to the name of Abraham Lincoln.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Decatur, Illinois.

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Jun 21, 1932

The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers of the world.

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I propose the adoption of the presentation already made at the Geneva Conference for the abolition of all tanks, all chemical warfare, and all large mobile guns.

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