Herbert Hoover: “IT IS our intention to repair the present executive offices, making them as fully fireproof as possible.”

This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power of defense through decreases in the power of the attack.

We cannot restore employment in the United States by these methods.

I am glad to see the adoption by the Senate and House of the principle of generous relief to unemployment.

We have no desire for offensive armament.