We can not afford to lose any ground in education

I am delighted that the Congress is earnestly taking up the reorganization of the Federal machinery.

I hope it will be done with such expedition as to give prompt relief to the taxpayers.

My suggestion for the past 5 years has been that the responsibility should be lodged with the Executive with the right of Congress to review the actions taken.

Miss Ann Halloran may be appointed to the position of stenographer in the Veterans' Administration without compliance with the requirements of the civil-service rules.

We need no attempt at canonization of George Washington.

It is the memory and the spirit of the greatest man of our race which pervades these grounds.

The time that Webster looked forward to is here.

The true eulogy of Washington is this mighty Nation.

Slander fell harmless before him, sham hung its head in shame, folly did not risk to look him in the face, corruption slunk from his presence, cowardice dared not show its quaking knees.

It is an occasion for looking back to our past, for taking stock of our present and, in the light of both, setting the compass for our future.

It is a national shrine, the very name of which swells our hearts with pride and gratitude.

I thank you cordially for bringing to my attention the purpose of American Jews, under the auspices of the Jewish National Fund, to plant a forest of pines and eucalyptus trees in Palestine, as a living memorial to George Washington.

The part which he played in the creation of our institutions has brought daily harvest of happiness to hundreds of millions of humanity.

I am deeply interested in all proposals to honor the memory of our first President during this bicentennial year.

Washington had courage without excitement, determination without passion.

No incident and no part in these great events, which have echoed and reechoed throughout the world for a century and a half, can be separated from the name and the dominant leadership of George Washington.

To you more than anyone else we entrust the translation of Washington to our children.