My budget estimates for the present year are creeping up towards $100,000,000 more for national defense for the War Department and the Navy Department than they were for the appropriations two or three years ago.

I think the country can rest fairly easy under the knowledge that the Bureau of Operations of the Navy and the General Staff of the Army are composed of very competent men.

Congress is disposed to be very liberal in providing for national defense.

I think I have had occasion before to comment on the fact that we never get the Army and Navy appropriation bills through without stories of that kind.

I am issuing pardons all the time, so that so far as pardons are concerned every day is Christmas over here.

I would do what I could to cooperate with him and see that the money that was appropriated by the United States Government was put into places where it could be best expended.

I don't recall that I ever made any suggestion that after I finished my term of office I was going to engage in the occupation of whittling.

I am having sent to me quite a number of jackknives.

I don't know of any special Christmas pardons that are likely to come along.

I don't want to keep getting jackknives under false pretenses.

all reports of that kind are without any foundation and will be unless they are officially announced by me

I have no doubt that his going there will increase the friendly relations between the people of Mexico and the people of the United States

his flight there has had a very pleasing effect

my desire to establish as soon as can be an air service between this country and the countries south of the Rio Grande

while I remain in the office of President I do not expect to make any arrangement whatever for any future kind of employment

I haven't any present intention of going back on that end of Pennsylvania Avenue

I have referred to the State Department a suggestion that came to me that something might be secured relative to the World Court by further negotiations.

So far as I know, they were not of a nature that encouraged the thought that further negotiation might bring about positive results, and so far as I have made inquiry of men in the Senate who were very friendly to the World Court proposal…