The President's News Conference
04/23/1931
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Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard...
I am glad to see the adoption by both the Senate and the House of the principle of generous relief to unemployment.
All bombing planes to be abolished.
These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.