"You may want to do a little autograph trading and I understand it takes five Hoovers to get one Babe Ruth."
— Herbert Hoover

January 1, 1970

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Explaining himself to a young autograph seeker as he signed his name six times; as quoted in "Hoover Elated by Swift Turn From New Deal" by Philip Kinsley, in The Chicago Tribune (18 December 1935), p. 4