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To: i-node who wrote (39290)2/19/2013 3:15:54 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 85487
 
"president who saved more human lives than any world leader in history",

Nope.

That is Hoover, who didn't cancel his good with a war.

How the U.S. saved a starving Soviet Russia: PBS film highlights Stanford scholar's research on the 1921-23 famine
The world barely remembers the terrible famine in the Soviet Russia – or the American charity that relieved it. Historian Bertrand Patenaude tells how Herbert Hoover saved more lives than any person who has ever lived.

news.stanford.edu