"I have brought back everything except my voice. The emotion of a moment like this is beyond expression. I can only thank you." The small, deep-lidded eyes of Herbert Clark Hoover glistened with welling tears. A sentimental man, it visibly moved him to be back in California in his big rambling mansion on the Stanford University campus. He had not heard any returns yet. It was midday. He was only trying to thank a group of neighbors and admirers who had come up the hill to pay their respects. He had come into the...
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