The problem that we are considering here is not primarily a system of health or education or morals.

There cannot be Boy Scouts without organization and leaders.

The conviction that every person in the Republic owes a service to the Republic; that the Republic rests solely upon the willingness of everyone born into it to bear his part of the duties and obligations of citizenship is as important as…

It is what to do with him in his leisure time that will, of course, contribute to his health and his education and his morals, but in the main what will direct his interests to constructive joy instead of destructive glee and will yield…

For you are concerned in the special interest of boys, and I am a willing ally in that interest.

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in section 5 of the act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388-389), that the trust period on allotments made to members of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians in Kansas, which trust expires…

In any event, he is a complex of cells teeming with affection, filled with the curiosity as to every mortal thing, radiating sunlight to all the world, endowed with dynamic energy, and an impelling desire to take exercise on all occasions.

History will properly appraise your efforts for posterity--the commendation of your own consciences for today.

I can only repeat what I have so often said to you before that the work which you have done, apart from its evident humanitarian aspects, is a large contribution to the cause of good-will between peoples.

It becomes my sad duty to announce officially the death of William Howard Taft, which occurred at his home in the City of Washington, on the eighth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty, at five-fifteen o'clock in the afternoon.

In public and in private life he set a shining example, and his death will be mourned throughout the land.

His private life was characterized by a simplicity of virtue that won for him a place in the affection of his fellow countrymen rarely equaled by any man.

Executive Orders Nos. 2905 and 3394, dated July 8, 1918, and January 28, 1921, respectively, withdrawing certain lands in Wyoming in aid of legislation to extend the boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park, are hereby revoked as to the…

The amount of unemployment is, in proportion to the number of workers, considerably less than one-half (probably only one-third) of that which resulted from the crashes of 1907–08, and 1920–22 at this period of the situation.

The undertakings to maintain wages have been held.

Since that time employment has been slowly increasing and the situation is much better today than at that time.

One result is an increasing volume of bond issues have been placed for public improvements.

Nationwide response to the request for increased construction and improvement work by public authorities, railroads, utilities, and industries is having a most material effect.