It takes time to plan public works, to legislate, to finance them, to assemble materials, to enter contracts so that the second half of the year promises even greater results--particularly is this true for our Federal appropriations and…

To definitely organize so as to prevent the activity in public works from receding like other activities in depression, and to speed them up in anticipation of future needs so as to alleviate unemployment in such a time is a new experiment…

This time the Nation has realized that as a sound economic policy, the prudent expedition of construction could be to an important degree used as a balance wheel to maintain security of employment, to maintain consumption of goods, to thus…

We have hitherto regarded great business depressions with their inevitable train of unemployment and hardships as an inevitable fever which must run it course, and in former times if public works were undertaken in alleviation of…

Mrs. Hoover and I wish to convey to you our deepest sympathy and our trust that you may be given strength in this, the greatest trial which can come to you.

I was greatly shocked this morning to learn of the death of your husband who has been my friend over twenty-five years.

I congratulate you most cordially upon your remarkably interesting and human news reports of the Byrd Antarctic expedition.

The public school system is America's distinctive and magnificent ally of the home in this most precious trust.

I am shocked and grieved at the death of my friend, your father, Representative Stephen G. Porter, and I offer you my deepest sympathy in your bereavement.

He will be long and gratefully remembered for his important services to the Nation, and I gladly bear witness to them of personal knowledge.

They were splendid.