Authors: Herbert Hoover

1917–1929

The Constructive Side of Government

Herbert Hoover, Campaign Address in St. Louis, Missouri Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/z9v7. I propose tonight to discuss the constructive side of

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1929–1941

Annual Message to Congress (1932)

President’s Annual Message, 72nd Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Record 76, p 1 S51. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1932/12/06. To the Senate and House of Representatives: In accord with my constitutional duty, I transmit herewith

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Great Depression
1929–1941

Annual Message to Congress (1931)

President’s Annual Message, 72nd Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Record 75, p 1 S22. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1931/12/08. To the Senate and House of Representatives: It is my duty under the Constitution to transmit

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Great Depression
1929–1941

Annual Message to Congress (1930)

Annual Message of the President of the United States, 71st Cong., 3rd sess., Congressional Record 74, p 1 S33. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1930/12/02. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I have the honor to

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1917–1929

Annual Message to Congress (1929)

President’s Annual Message, 71st Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Record 72, p 1 S21. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1929/12/03. To the Senate and House of Representatives: The Constitution requires that the President “shall, from time

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1917–1929

Inaugural Address (1929)

Herbert Hoover, Inaugural Address. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207571 My Countrymen: THIS occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred

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