Herbert Hoover: “The whole occasion was merely to give them encouragement and the assurance of complete support from this side in any…”

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

While these features in the Wagner and the Garner bills are not in the form and are not as well safeguarded as they should be, they are in line with major objectives I have been advocating.

I do so with the deepest regret because of the distinguished service you have rendered and the fine place you have been able to make for yourself in the Diplomatic Service.

I propose the adoption of the presentation already made at the Geneva Conference for the abolition of all tanks, all chemical warfare, and all large mobile guns.