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"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."

Herbert Hoover, 31st President, 1929-1933, Born August 10, 1874

In October 1897, a London mining firm asked its American representative to recommend a candidate with thirty-five years of age and seven years of experience to work the newly capitalized mines of Australia. The twenty-three-year-old Hoover inflated his credentials, grew a mustache to make himself look older, and acquired a natty tweed outfit suitable for his London interview.

He got the job.  (Two years later, Hoover wrote from the hellish heat of Australia's outback, "Take it (back). I haven't worn it yet. Australia, concluded Hoover, was a land of "red dust, black flies, and red heat."

Bob Dole, Great Presidential Wit, Simon & Schuster,  2001