The burden of agricultural debt [...] has been decisively and definitely lessened.

I did not promise the millennium for agriculture.

It is good to get into Nebraska again.

Your hope has materialized, at least in part.

This program carried out in accordance with acts of Congress will bring the United States Navy up to treaty strength by 1942.

The American naval building policy is precisely and without change what it has been during the past two years and a half.

The United States adheres to the Washington and London treaties.

I earnestly hope that in each of our local communities men and women interested in the public welfare will give increasing thought and time to this great cooperative democratic method of providing recreation for all the people untrammeled…

I believe the exchange of information and ideas among the leaders at the National Recreation Congress will result in carrying forward the recreation movement with the same high enthusiasm which has always characterized your group.

I rejoice in the growing public interest in this subject as evidenced by the fine facilities now being provided by the Government-Federal, state and local—for the enjoyment of the people.

The hospitals are destined to grow in the important services they render communities.

I gladly embrace this opportunity to acknowledge the contributions you are making to human welfare.

Our hospitals, and particularly those administered by non-profit religious organizations, symbolize better than any other institution the depth as well as the dynamic quality of this national characteristic.

This country at last is emerging from the great economic depression which has engulfed the entire Nation for six years and some parts of our population for a much longer period.

By the passage of the Vinson-Trammell Bill which authorizes the upbuilding of our Navy to the limits of existing treaties, our national legislation gave very definite expression of its purpose to increase the strength of the American Navy…

It is imperative that we should heed the needs of national defense.

We can solve our many problems, but no one man or single group can do it.

I am particularly anxious that the new social security legislation just enacted...shall be carried out in keeping with the high purposes with which this law was enacted.