THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Oct. 31, 1932

"I have not in 15 years since I entered public service had a dime's interest outside the United States of any kind, including oil," President Hoover last week telegraphed G. O. Partisans in Southern California. They had complained that Democrats were circulating stories to the effect that President Hoover had large foreign oil holdings which made him unsympathetic to an oil tariff. The President added that he did not believe an oil duty could have been voted into the 1932 Revenue Act without his support.

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