Herbert Hoover: “I have requested General [Charles G.] Dawes to accept the position of President of the new Reconstruction Corporation.”

So much of the order of June 8, 1926, creating Reservoir-Site Reserve No. 17, as affects the lands hereinafter described is hereby revoked

We cannot restore employment in the United States by these methods.

I earnestly hope that this may be done.

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