The President's News Conference
06/20/1929
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Provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $9.
Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard...
This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power...
No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.