Herbert Hoover: “Thereby, we have inaugurated one of the greatest economic experiments in history on a basis of nationwide cooperation…”

The details of this estimate, the necessity therefor, and the reason for its transmission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations…

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.

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

We cannot restore employment in the United States by these methods.