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On the recordJune 24, 1929
If we are to hold the expenditure down to $3,900 million, or thereabouts, the equivalent of this present fiscal year, it will be necessary to make serious reductions in some other directions, and still enable us to comply with the additional burden imposed by congressional action.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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