The President's News Conference
09/21/1931
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Without it the several measures for restoration of public confidence and reconstruction which we have already undertaken will be incomplete ...
Every reduction that can be made without serious injury to these services and injustice to our people should be effected.
It is the very keystone of recovery.
I am confident that the undertaking of the representatives of both political parties to balance the budget remains and will be fulfilled.