Word: rapidan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover carried 13 guests out to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. After catching his quota of fish, the President talked shop with Secretary of State Stimson, Attorney General Mitchell, Republican Senators and Congressmen...
With a few old fishing friends President Hoover for the second time this year went to his Virginia mountain camp, quickly caught 20 trout in the Rapidan. After dinner he sat on the porch with Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Dr. Hubert Work, onetime Republican National Committee Chairman, discussing plans for a Presidential trip in August through the National Parks in the Rocky Mountains. Suggested was the possibility of his making several formal addresses in the West which would strengthen his Administration politically...
...Secretary of War Hurley, suffering recurrence of an old stomach ailment, was taking a two-week rest at the President's summer retreat on the Rapidan...
...literally millions of friends by the simple yet often thrilling words in which he voiced love of Peace, devotion to God, and perhaps most moving of all to city dwellers, his deep, countryman's joy in Nature, in "the rushing waters and softly sighing trees of your Rapidan...
When the Virginia trout season opened last week, President Hoover dropped all official business at the White House, went hurrying away to his Rapidan Camp for his first weekend outing since last October. His guests were Secretaries Lament and Wilbur, Attorney General Mitchell. Mrs. Hoover was away in Philadelphia. The Rapidan party was stag...