The President's News Conference
03/25/1931
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The reduction in governmental expenditures and the stability of Government finance is the most fundamental step that we can take to this end...
Our first duty as a nation is to put our governmental house in order-national, State, and local.
But our first duty as a nation is to put our governmental house in order--national, State, and local.
The developments of the past week should give great assurances to the country.