It is on this national stage that the great drama of our political life has been played.

No one in 150 years has been able to improve upon it.

It is the wish and the demand of the American people that our new buildings shall comport with the dignity of the Capital of America.

Washington is not only the Nation's Capital, it is the symbol of America.

Now, Therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendatory regulations.

I WISH to express my sympathetic interest in The Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy, and to commend this great humanitarian effort now being made in the Philippines by your organization.

It is unnecessary for me to argue the fact that the very essence of freedom is obedience to law; that liberty itself has but one foundation, and that is in the law.

That is the enforcement and obedience to the laws of the United States, both Federal and State.

No individual has the right to determine what law shall be obeyed and what law shall not be enforced.

The first result of the plan, if put into operation, would be a gigantic gift from the government and the public to the dealers and manufacturers and speculators in these commodities.

A further serious question arises again (if the plan did have the effect intended) where the foreign producer of animals would be enabled to purchase feed for less than the American farmer producing the same animals.

If the increased price did reflect to the farmer, the plan would stimulate overproduction and thereby increase world supply which would in turn depreciate world prices and consequently decrease the price which the farmer would receive, and…

Respect for law and obedience to law does not distinguish between Federal and State laws--it is a common conscience.

It is not proposed to pay the debentures of subsidies to the farmers, but to the export merchants, and it seems certain that a large part of it would not be reflected back to the farmer.

The plan would require a substantial increase in taxes as no such expenditure or depletion of revenues as this plan implies could be paid from marginal income of the government more particularly in view of the very large increased…

Altogether, from the above reasons, it is my belief that the theoretical benefits would not be reflected to the American farmer; that it would create profiteering; that it contains elements which would bring American agriculture to…

I regret deeply that I cannot agree that this provision would bring the results expected.

On the contrary I am convinced that it would bring disaster to the American farmer.