Mr. Hoover, your dedication and devotion to public service are so long and so well known, your accomplishments in that service are so great and so well known, that it seems idle for me to try to say anything that could add to the dignity of this ceremony.
Citation and Remarks at Presentation of the National Security Medal to J. Edgar Hoover
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