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Thegoing to mosety in, on beginning of my own presentation so that people can head in from the break. Great pleasure to be invited here and be part of this event. It is a distinct pleasure, to be surrounded by so many hoovers. [laughter] like we are complete. We start this segment in the summer of 1921, and in that summer soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine. As george nash mentioned earlier. Millions are threatened with starvation and disease. Most of them, i will have a map up, situated in and beyond the volga river valley. The soviet government, led by vladimir lenin, is unable to cope with the disaster, so it is goced to allow an appeal to out for foreign assistance. And at that time, on that day, in the summer of 1921, there is only one man on the planet in a position to answer that call, and that of course is the man you see here. That is Herbert Hoover, as chairman of the American Relief administration, the a. R. A. As george nash told us, since 1919 the a. R. A.

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