The President's News Conference
08/19/1929
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard...
I propose that the treaty number and tonnage of battleships shall be reduced by one-third.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact, to which we are all signatories, can only mean that the nations of the world have agreed that t...
We have no desire for offensive armament.