It appears to expect me to perform two separate duties, which occasionally in some degree seem to conflict.

It is the right and duty of Congress to investigate and formulate legislation.

Fishing is the only labor or recreation open to a President in which both the press and the public are prepared to concede privacy.

I am well aware of the difficulties of a program of close cooperation.

Ten days ago I made rather a full statement on the purpose of the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament, on which [p.67] Ambassador [Hugh] Gibson represents us.

There is no question on that.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy or remove any feature of this Monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

Someone also has asked what I propose to do on the headwaters of the Rapidan this summer.

I replied to the committee that I would at once study the draft and would confer with them about it, probably tomorrow.

Now, Therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the act of Congress entitled, 'An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities,' approved June 8, 1906…

You are all aware that I have held that this transfer ought to be made.