The President's News Conference
06/16/1932
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Knowing your public spirit I am most desirous that you should be a member of this committee.
It is essential that we should maintain the sound American tradition and spirit of voluntary aid in such emergency.
I am appointing a nation-wide committee to sponsor the American Red Cross effort to raise ten millions of dollars for the relief of the suff...
The American way of meeting such a relief problem has been through voluntary effort and for many years this effort has been centered in the ...