Herbert Hoover: “It is difficult for me to find adequate expression for my appreciation of the reception given to me today by the people…”

The applicant's name should appear in full on the front page of the application, thus, 'John Henry Smith,' not 'J.H. Smith'

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

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

The reductions must be real and positive.