Herbert Hoover actually said...

Concerted effort will be made to place contracts for the building contemplated for this year as rapidly as possible.

White House Statement About Public Building Projects.

04/21/1930

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No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.

The armaments of the world have grown up in general mutual relation to each other.

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

It is folly for the world to go on breaking its back over military expenditure, and the United States is willing to take its share of respon...