Herbert Hoover actually said...

The Cabinet members and heads of independent agencies have undertaken a searching inquiry into every branch of the Government as to methods by which economies may be brought about for the present fiscal year without interfering in the program of aid to unemployment.

Context

Statement on Government Expenditures.

07/17/1930

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