Herbert Hoover: “Since that time employment has been slowly increasing and the situation is much better today than at that time.”

The details of this estimate, the necessity therefor, and the reason for its transmission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations…

Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that lands within the Toiyabe National Forest…

One never makes a statement like that.

Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.