The President's News Conference
12/16/1929
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Ours is a government by opinion and the press is the most important part of that process.
It appears to expect me to perform two separate duties, which occasionally in some degree seem to conflict.
Someone also has asked what I propose to do on the headwaters of the Rapidan this summer.
I replied to the committee that I would at once study the draft and would confer with them about it, probably tomorrow.