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Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
HOOVER, Herbert (1874-1964). Typed document signed as President ("Herbert Hoover"), the Address of President Hoover on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Harding Memorial, Marion, Ohio, 16 June 1931. 4 pages, 4to, signed at the end.
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HOOVER, Herbert (1874-1964). Typed document signed as President ("Herbert Hoover"), the Address of President Hoover on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Harding Memorial, Marion, Ohio, 16 June 1931. 4 pages, 4to, signed at the end.
"THERE IS NO DISLOYALTY AND NO CRIME...WHICH COMPARES WITH THE FAILURE OF PROBITY IN THE CONDUCT OF THE PUBLIC TRUST." Hoover warmly recalls Harding and denounces the Teapot Dome criminals. "Warren G. Harding came from the people...It became his responsibility to lead the Republic in a period of reconstruction from another great War...to withstand encroachment upon its independence..." Hoover recalls his first meeting with Harding and describes Harding's "great disillusionment" following the revelations of the Teapot Dome scandal, concluding that "There is no disloyalty and no crime in all the category of human weaknesses," he says, "which compares with the failure of probity in the conduct of the public trust."
"THERE IS NO DISLOYALTY AND NO CRIME...WHICH COMPARES WITH THE FAILURE OF PROBITY IN THE CONDUCT OF THE PUBLIC TRUST." Hoover warmly recalls Harding and denounces the Teapot Dome criminals. "Warren G. Harding came from the people...It became his responsibility to lead the Republic in a period of reconstruction from another great War...to withstand encroachment upon its independence..." Hoover recalls his first meeting with Harding and describes Harding's "great disillusionment" following the revelations of the Teapot Dome scandal, concluding that "There is no disloyalty and no crime in all the category of human weaknesses," he says, "which compares with the failure of probity in the conduct of the public trust."