Herbert Hoover: “The bridge will be constructed by local authorities.”

These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.

We must make headway against the mutual fear and friction arising out of war armament which kill human confidence throughout the world.

Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that lands within the Toiyabe National Forest…

Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.