I want to express that feeling to you and to wish you the happiest new year.

It is hereby ordered that the SW. ¼ sec. 1, S. sec. 2, all of sec. 11, W. ½ sec. 12, NW. ¼ sec. 13, and N. ½ sec. 14, T. 49 N., R. 9 W., New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado, be and the same are hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale…

We have tried to experiment now for about 8 months, a rather fundamental line of at least a departure from previous months, and I think it has worked out satisfactorily.

I believe the enforcement of the law must be built up step by step in the spirit of the men who have the problem in their hands; that it must be built up in the spirit of the people.

The Law Enforcement Commission has been investigating the different phases of this problem with view to arriving at some sort of a broad and effective solution.

The Federal Government obviously can have just one object in view, and that is to secure an adequate enforcement of the law, whatever it is.

It is hereby ordered that the following described tract of land in the State of Washington adjoining the Columbia National Forest, namely, SE ¼ NE ¼ sec. 24, T. 4 N., R. 4 E., Willamette Meridian, containing 40 acres, be and it is hereby…

I have been very glad to sign the bill authorizing the construction over a term of years of further hospitals for war veterans.

You will want to go away for Christmas, and I will be too lazy, so I wish to take this occasion to wish you a merry Christmas, and will have a chance to wish you a happy new year later on.

One or two turkeys already in.

I have none. The house is making the usual preparation of green and things that belong to the season.

I don't expect to go away and there is nothing special happening.

Well, I have a complete blank on this occasion, and I don't think that we will bother to have a conference on Tuesday.

It is believed that it will produce a body of systematic fact about social problems, hitherto inaccessible, that will be of fundamental and permanent value to all students and workers in the field of social science.

The survey will be a strictly scientific research, carried out by trained technicians, and will require about 2 or 3 years to complete.

Please express to the members of the Tanners' Council gathered in Washington my cordial greetings and my deep appreciation of their patriotic cooperation in the nationwide task of assuring stability to the economic structure of the country…

Otherwise than that I haven't got any news at all.

So that I am afraid I can't help you out this morning.