The President's News Conference
05/27/1929
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These policies and measures will hold our hard-won American system of ordered liberty and government.
That the validity of a passport . . . shall be limited to a period of two years.
The willingness of our people to accept this added burden in these times in order impregnably to establish the credit of...
Provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $9.