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Famous quotes containing the words herbert, hoover and/or presidency:

    Go, birds of spring: let winter have his fee;
    Let a bleak paleness chalk the door,
    So all within be livelier than before.
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)