The President's News Conference
05/02/1929
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Of all the honors which have been bestowed, I rate most highly the approval of my professional brethren as expressed in the John Fritz Medal...
It is our primary duty to do more than erect offices.
It is on this national stage that the great drama of our political life has been played.
Washington is not only the Nation's Capital, it is the symbol of America.