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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Dec 4, 1930

The only provision we are making is that it will produce employment during the next 6 months, and that is the sole object of relief legislation--not to further schemes that look to a general upbuilding of the Nation beyond our taxing…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· May 3, 1929

Executive order of April 17, 1926, creating public water reserve No. 107, is hereby modified so as to exclude the Territory of Alaska from the operation thereof.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Jan 17, 1929

No passport shall be granted or issued to, or verified for, any persons other than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States.

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Ben Harrison
@benharrison· Republican · IN· Feb 9, 1890

I furthermore notify all persons to particularly observe that by said act certain tracts or portions of the Great Reservation of the Sioux Nation in the Territory of Dakota, as described by metes and bounds, are set apart as separate and…

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Ben Harrison
@benharrison· Republican · IN· Dec 2, 1889

Such aid should be, as it always has been, suggested by some exceptional conditions.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jul 5, 1888

A pension should not be allowed, for the reason, among others, that three careful medical examinations failed to disclose any pensionable disability.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· May 17, 1888

If we are to adhere to the rule that in order to entitle the widow of a soldier to a pension the death of her husband must be in some way related to his military service, there can be no doubt that upon its merits this case was properly…

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jan 4, 1888

I earnestly commend the situation and the wrongs of the Indians occupying the reservation named to the early attention of the Congress.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· May 23, 1887

it be vacated whenever the interest of the Indians shall require it, upon notice to that effect to the Secretary of War.

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James Buchanan
@jamesbuchanan· Democratic · PA· Feb 23, 1859

This bill, should it become a law, will operate greatly to the injury of the new States.

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John Tyler
@johntyler· Whig · VA· Dec 22, 1842

In advance of the acquirement of individual rights to these lands sound policy dictates that every effort should be resorted to by the two Governments to settle their respective claims.

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