What the country needs is a good big laugh. ... If someone could get off a good joke every ten days, I think our troubles would be over.

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Herbert Hoover was president of the united states from 1929 to 1933. Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia →

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