We are trying to hold on to Mr. MacCracken.

Seven years of experience under the tariff bill enacted in 1922 have demonstrated the wisdom of Congress in the enactment of that measure.

I cordially approve the plan to pay tribute to Professor Albert Einstein on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his birthday.

Every important scientific achievement is a step forward in the direction of better universal understanding and good will.

I have called this special session of Congress to redeem two pledges given in the last election--farm relief and limited changes in the tariff.

The difficulties of agriculture cannot be cured in a day; they cannot all be cured by legislation; they cannot be cured by the Federal Government alone.

The general result has been that our agricultural industry has not kept pace in prosperity or standards of living with other lines of industry.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated under the penalties prescribed by Sections 52, 53, and 84, as amended April 15, 1924, of the United States Penal Code, and the Alaska game law…

If the President will allow himself to be quoted as saying that there are 49,200,000 cows in the United States, that appears to be exciting news.

I am well aware of the difficulties of a program of close cooperation.

It appears to expect me to perform two separate duties, which occasionally in some degree seem to conflict.

The objects to be gained by cooperation within an administration between the administration and Congress, between the administration and the leaders of our economic and social forces, are not the pawns of politics; they are not the…

It never has been and ought not to be the policy of the United States to intervene by force to secure or maintain contracts between our citizens and foreign states or their citizens.

I owe to them a larger obligation for the courtesy of these dinners for over 17 years.

The ideal solution, of course, would be to excite the press without exciting the country.

It is progress of and service of a nation in the upbuilding of the institutions of freedom; its contribution to the growth of liberty, the development of humane relations, the advancement of the individual man--which measures the soul and…

I sometimes wonder how our country can earn its living so arduously and successfully and at the same time do all the reading that it seems to do.

Fishing is the only labor or recreation open to a President in which both the press and the public are prepared to concede privacy.