Herbert Hoover: “I cannot, however, allow a false issue to be placed before the country.”

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

This order shall be effective from July 1, 1932.

It was unfortunate also that the provision for agricultural relief through the Reconstruction Corporation was omitted.

It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.