Herbert Hoover: “I want you to know of my personal regret that the long established custom in relation to conventions in foreign lands…”

There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.

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

One never makes a statement like that.

Executive Order No. 4610, approved March 10, 1927, as amended by Executive Order No. 4833, March 19, 1928, and by Executive Order No. 5001, November 23, 1928, is revoked effective July 1, 1932.