Political Quotes

On the recordMay 28, 1931
It is difficult for me to express, with my natural--I hope natural--modesty, that it gives one pleasure to see oneself presented in a better fashion than the normal snap photograph.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address to the Union League of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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