It doesn't occur to me offhand that that would be feasible.
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I haven't seen the Goldsmith open letter which is said to have been addressed to me and which has been published in Canada.
I have great hopes that Mr. Stimson is going to be able to bring that about.
I haven't any report today from Nicaragua.
Under our standard we do not expect the Government to support trade; we expect trade to support the Government.
Governments do not have commercial relations.
What I said about quoting the President in relation to the use of the term as spokesman wasn't said for publication.
The only thing I am suggesting is that you observe the rule of not quoting the President.
Certainly, I have no desire to do that and shouldn't want to be thought so lacking in appreciation of a man of his abilities as to think that he wasn't well qualified for any position in the Cabinet that he would be willing to accept.
I had rather assumed that that would be assumed by the conference.
I didn't speak of Mr. Hoover's abilities the other day.
While I am on that, I might state again that Mr. Kellogg isn't going to resign.
In this case it has no foundation whatever.
What I am telling you is a general principle.
In this and like communities public sentiment is everything.
I have no disposition to say anything about it, and until something develops I think in the future you may expect that I will not make any comment about it.
There is one problem that I have to keep under constant emphasis, and that is economy and government expenditures.
I think that in the past few weeks I have detected some evidences that in the coming session of Congress a good many efforts are going to be put forth to secure considerable expenditures of money.