This social security measure gives at least some protection to thirty millions of our citizens.

Today a hope of many years' standing is in large part fulfilled.

It is, in short, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life.

I congratulate all of you ladies and gentlemen, all of you in the Congress, in the executive departments and all of you who come from private life, and I thank you for your splendid efforts in behalf of this sound, needed and patriotic…

It is a splendid thing for you to do, and it proves that something that we have always wanted has worked out.

We tried two and a half years ago to establish a principle—a principle that two Nations, side by side, ought to be good neighbors.

I hereby designate the Electric Home and Farm Authority, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, as an agency of the United States.

I am not only coming to Havana, but I am going into the interior of the country.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

The Motor Carrier Act which the President signed today provides the first regulation of such carriers undertaken by the Federal Government.

I recommend that the Congress enact legislation, giving the consent of Congress to the State Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas, executed at Dallas, Texas, on February 16, 1935.

The agencies are not to incur, from and after September 15, 1935, any obligations for administrative expenses not approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget.

The aforesaid agencies and instrumentalities are requested not to incur any obligation for administrative expenses out of any such funds unless estimates for such expenditures shall have been approved by the Director of the Bureau of the…

I wish to voice the hope of the people and the Government of the United States that an amicable solution will be found and that peace will be maintained.

To facilitate the maintenance and betterment of the American standard of living.

To promote larger and more economical production of useful goods.

To review public policy in so far as it relates to the consumer.