Herbert Hoover: “I earnestly hope that this may be done.”

It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.

It was unfortunate also that the provision for agricultural relief through the Reconstruction Corporation was omitted.

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.

We have no desire for offensive armament.