Herbert Hoover: “We cannot allow the Navy to fall behind in its morale and recreational facilities.”

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.

We cannot restore employment in the United States by these methods.

So much of the order of June 8, 1926, creating Reservoir-Site Reserve No. 17, as affects the lands hereinafter described is hereby revoked

I am glad to see the adoption by the Senate and House of the principle of generous relief to unemployment.