THE PRESIDENCY: Bathtubs & Babies

"Take bathtubs. I wouldn't care if every bathtub was exactly the same if all people had them and would use them. . . . It's all right to standardize so long as we standardize UP and not DOWN."

President Hoover was sitting in an old leather rocking chair in the Lincoln study of the White House talking to Journalist Frazier Hunt. The "no-quoting-the-President" rule had been partially relaxed because the non-political subject of the President's conversation was very close to his heart. It was more about babies than bathtubs, though, because President Hoover...

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