Herbert Hoover: “Certainly no President, with his other duties, can pretend to make that exhaustive determination of the complex facts…”

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.

These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.

This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power of defense through decreases in the power of the attack.

Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'