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Andrew Mellon: Here's a dime....

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Here's a dime. Call up both of them! [Mellon's response when Herbert Hoover asked for a nickel to call up a friend.]

Source: In Presidential Anecdotes, by Paul F. Boller, Jr., pg. 253, 1981.
-- Andrew Mellon, (Mar 24 1855-1937), US financier, philanthropist; He was Secretary of Treasury, 1921-32; ambassador to Great Britain, 1932-33; endowed Washington's National Art Gallery.


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