The President's News Conference
04/23/1931
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact, to which we are all signatories, can only mean that the nations of the world have agreed that t...
These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.
We cannot restore employment in the United States by these methods.
No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.