Herbert Hoover: “I have nothing for publication today.”

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

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.

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.

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