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Throw the ball.

The large medicine ball and catch it.

Quickly toss it to the president.

To the Supreme Court Justice.

Over the head of a reporter.

To the president's physician. To the head of a reporter, to the president's physician,

to the Secretary of Agriculture, and back to the president again, it's certainly good exercise.

Thank you. It was called Bull in the ring. And in the Ring, and in the shade of some bushes around the White House that could block the reporters.

President Hoover would exercise with his good friends in administration.

The idea was to keep the ball, the big medicine ball moving, but all the while, throw it away from it.

If it, the man in the middle, touched it, the next guy was it.

Yeah, President Hoover could hustle.

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