Herbert Hoover: “This is well indicated by the fact that less than one third of federal prisoners are due to prohibition.”

While these features in the Wagner and the Garner bills are not in the form and are not as well safeguarded as they should be, they are in line with major objectives I have been advocating.

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 propose the adoption of the presentation already made at the Geneva Conference for the abolition of all tanks, all chemical warfare, and all large mobile guns.

Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'