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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Herbert Hoover

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Herbert Hoover
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 10
Died: 1964
Died: October 20
31St U.S. President
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West Branch
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Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert C. Hoover
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The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
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Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.
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American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, Am I my brother's keeper?
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The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
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Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
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No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.
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. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
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