The President's News Conference
05/02/1929
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Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard...
Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.
These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.
One never makes a statement like that.