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Establishing the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

When President Herbert Hoover laid the cornerstone of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., on February 20, 1933, the president told those assembled, “this temple of our history will appropriately be . . . an expression of the American soul.”1 Twenty-nine years later, President Hoover would be present at another National Archives dedication, this time of his own presidential library.