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Herbert Hoover speech: Our Most Important Domestic Issue
Collection TitleHerbert Hoover subject collection
Date CreatedFebruary 12, 1940
Description
Hoover speaks about unemployment in America and government actions to reduce it and improve the economy as a whole. He views getting men back to work as the most important humanitarian effort possible. He notes that the other democracies climbed out of the Great Depression by 1935, but not America. He criticizes government borrowing, regulation, Statism as a whole.
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speeches (documents)
Hoover ID62008_a_0002436
Record Number62008.5
Collection Guidehttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf758005bj
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