I am not, of course, an expert at all on what is the type of ship that we need most, but I am advised by the Navy that it is in the matter o...
But I think if it is understood that this is a plan toward which the Navy is to work in the future as funds become available, and that so fa...
No, I have given you the wrong number.
There are some letters being received here at my office against the building program and some communications are being received in favor of ...
I have understood that there was something of a propaganda under way against any Navy building program.
The work could go right on and the commission report to the next Congress, and on that report the next Congress would then legislate.
I think it would be the best plan, so far as I can judge, to proceed to do this work in accordance with the present law; that is, through th...
I should expect that under any commission that might be set up or any agency that might be used for the prosecution of this work, that it wo...
My position, as I suggested the other day, was fully set out in my message, wherein I stated that I thought the property that was to be bene...
It seems to me that the decision about that would be this—that this is something that the United States Government ought to do.
I think it has already been announced that I appointed Colonel Latrobe to be my Aide.
One of the strongest safeguards of the integrity of official action is publicity.
In no small degree you are the keepers of the public conscience.
It is perhaps stating the obvious to say that the press should be patriotic.
Publicity is not only the main agency of reform, it is likewise the main agency of prevention.
In a republic the field which is open to the press as an instrument of clean and sound government is limitless.
No evidence has come to me that the next Treasury surplus will be in excess of the $252,540,000 that has already been made public.
Nor have I any information on any supposed desire of President [sic] Hoover to stay in or leave the Cabinet.
