Republican Convention, 1932

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“You better pick your best, and then may the best team win - that is, the best for the country, be it Democratic or Republican, for a guiding hand in any business now needs encouragement and especially in guiding the biggest business in the world. Lord, what a tough time to have a country on your hands.”- Will Rogers in a dispatch to the New York Times from Chicago that June when President Herbert Hoover was nominated for a second term as the Great Depression deepened.

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