No, I have given you the wrong number.

But I think if it is understood that this is a plan toward which the Navy is to work in the future as funds become available, and that so far as the cruisers are concerned it is to quite a large extent a matter of replacement, that a good…

I should expect that under any commission that might be set up or any agency that might be used for the prosecution of this work, that it would be done in a business way.

It seems to me that the decision about that would be this—that this is something that the United States Government ought to do.

I think it would be the best plan, so far as I can judge, to proceed to do this work in accordance with the present law; that is, through the War Department, the Chief of the Bureau of Engineers, and the Mississippi Flood Commission.

My position, as I suggested the other day, was fully set out in my message, wherein I stated that I thought the property that was to be benefited ought to bear some portion of the expense.

The work could go right on and the commission report to the next Congress, and on that report the next Congress would then legislate.

I think it has already been announced that I appointed Colonel Latrobe to be my Aide.

In a republic the field which is open to the press as an instrument of clean and sound government is limitless.

Publicity is not only the main agency of reform, it is likewise the main agency of prevention.

It is perhaps stating the obvious to say that the press should be patriotic.

One of the strongest safeguards of the integrity of official action is publicity.

In no small degree you are the keepers of the public conscience.

No evidence has come to me that the next Treasury surplus will be in excess of the $252,540,000 that has already been made public.

Nor have I any information on any supposed desire of President [sic] Hoover to stay in or leave the Cabinet.

I haven't any information of any developments as to negotiations between the United States and France for a treaty to outlaw war, other than what has already been given to the press, our general position being that we would like to make…

This has been brought about, not by bringing in experts from the outside, but by making people already in the service of the various branches of the Government and securing the full benefit of their knowledge and experience.

This progressive and systematic examination of all of our activities must constantly go on.