I send you my cordial congratulations upon your birthday and I do pray that you may long continue in health and happiness to be the wise counselor and valued friend of the youth of the land.

I am much interested in the work of the Pan American Society in its promotion of friendly relations and mutual understanding between the United States and its sister republics of Latin America.

I wish you every success in the efforts you and your associates are putting forth along these lines.

The proposed legislation has my approval and I recommend its immediate enactment.

There is nothing in the program which has been proposed here that has any intention of taking over the responsibilities of the States in any shape or form.

In the meantime, a vast clamor of half-truths and untruths and injured facts will always fill the air and intoxicate people's emotions.

Our great American experiment has demonstrated that the people will of their own initiative take care of progress if the government can remove abuse and help put the signs on the road, stimulation to all of which is part of the job of…

Possibly if I had either the time or the inclination to worry over the evils which lurk around the White House it might decrease my faith in human goodness, but, fortunately, the insistent need for determination of definite action in…

When we look back over history we see the periods of either moral, social, economic, or political stagnation while the truth was en route and some variety of demagoguery occupied the scene.

But if these blots were other than exceptions, this nation would not have swept to a mightier and mightier destiny every year since the Independence.

It is from too much emphasis on 'government of the people' that we get the fundamental confusion that government, since it can correct much abuse, can also create righteousness.

THE PRESIDENT. It seems a sad thing to bring you all here from really a good day, but I haven't a thing on my mind.

The commission shall study and recommend to the President, forwarding copies of its report to each of the appropriate Secretaries, affairs which should be transferred to Alaska for administration; and the commission will secondly recommend…

Our publicity news does not seem to break in so well with these conferences, so you will have to wait for another time.

The White House has no interest in the question, which is one of parliamentary procedure, and desires only expedition of legislation and will adapt itself entirely to the wishes of the House leaders in any methods they adopt for early…

Pursuant to the provisions of the act of February 10, 1927, entitled 'An act authorizing the designation of an ex officio commissioner for Alaska for each of the executive departments of the United States, and for other purposes,' and for…

Mrs. Mary Bernadine Partridge may be appointed to a clerical position in the Bureau of Prohibition without compliance with the Civil Service Rules.

I have nothing today.