Standing in the broiling sun of an Iowa state fair one day last week, the only living ex-President of the United States cast his mind back to the days of his Iowa boyhood and from them drew a moral for a later, more troubled age. In a speech accepting a bronze plaque for distinguished citizenship, he took as his text four words which were almost a paraphrase of his own citation: "Honor in public life." Said Herbert Hoover:
"I sometimes wonder what the 56 Founding Fathers, from their invisible presence in our congressional halls, would say about the procession of men in...
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