The President's News Conference
12/16/1929
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No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.
The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhel...
I am glad to see the adoption by both the Senate and the House of the principle of generous relief to unemployment.
I feel very proud of that tribute, and I appreciate very much the attitude of the press about it.