Herbert Hoover: “We are making every effort to hold down the expenditures of the Government in the present fiscal year.”

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.

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

I had the pleasure of his acquaintance and I shared the admiration he inspired in all who knew him by his joyous humanity and his unlimited interest in and devotion to the happiness and well-being of others.