Herbert Hoover actually said...

I have canvassed the financial situation in the Government exhaustively with our different departments, and I can state that there will be no increases in taxes if the next Congress imposes no increases on the budget or the expenditure proposals which the administration will present.

Context

The President's News Conference

03/30/1931

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