"[Hoover was the greatest engineer in the world since] he had drained, ditched, and damned the United States in three years."
— Herbert Hoover

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to a Kansas farmer, as quoted by Roy Victor Peel, The 1932 Campaign (1935, reprinted 1973), p. 56.