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When Walter Hines Page was ambassador to the Court of St. James's, he told President Wilson, in recommending his then secretary for ministerhood: "I depend on him [Laughlin] more than all the rest of my staff together. I can hardly imagine a more careful or conscientious man." While Secretary of Commerce, President Hoover was impressed by Laughlin's ability when, as minister at Athens, he aided U. S. corporations in securing a munificent contract for waterworks construction. A man of affairs with long foreign experience, he precisely fits the Hoover pattern for diplomats...
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