Herbert Hoover actually said...

This is fundamentally a proposal to not only simplify the Federal relations with the States but to secure a positive conservation program under the management of the States and for the benefit of the public schools in those States of the unappropriated public lands.

Context

The President's News Conference

08/26/1929

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