While attending the dedication of another’s president’s library, this man was asked how former U.S. presidents pass the time. His answer was, “We spend our days taking pills and dedicating libraries.”
Herbert Hoover said it at the dedication of the Harry Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, in July 1957. Hoover was almost 83 at the time.
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