Herbert Hoover

They are showing great courage and initiative in this rehabilitation.

All together the situation is satisfactory and full of hope.

The island has been a success from a commercial view.

The Virgin Islands may have some military value sometime.

I HAVE RECEIVED the Resolutions in deep appreciation and with a vivid hope of the welfare of the Islands under cooperation with the United States.

I only wish I could stay longer and enlarge the acquaintance of my fellow citizens here.

We regard it as the oldest part of the United States.

I have been greatly impressed by the courage with which you have faced your difficulties.

I trust that the forthcoming national conference of the Joint Distribution Committee will result in continuation of the hearty cooperation and support which have made possible the success that has hitherto accompanied its benevolent…

I haven't any at all. You could shake hands with the whole population of the Virgin Islands in 4 hours.

No, I do not think so. I want to stick close to American soil.

This is going to be merely a response of greetings. There will be no expression of policy.

There is nothing new aside from the appointment of Sam Thompson as a member of the Federal Farm Board.

Yes, at Ponce. He will meet us at Ponce.

I think 3 days sleep would do us all good. I am taking it all out mostly in sleep.

I have not given a great deal of attention to this, I shall probably give a 10 or 15 minute speech at some point.

It all depends how everyone feels. There are no rules about this voyage.

It seems very inapropos to catch small fish with a large boat.

I cordially congratulate the Kips Bay Boys' Club upon the formal opening of their new building and warmly hope that the boys may find much happiness in enjoyment of its greater opportunities for their benefit and pleasure.

Otherwise than the fact that we are going, I haven't got anything to give you.

It is hereby ordered that the following described tract of public land in California be, and it is hereby, withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, entry, and other forms of disposal, subject to any prior valid claim legally initiated…

I haven't anything for you this morning at all, I am sorry to say.

I have just said that part of you, at least, will have a chance to get seasick for the next 3 days to see whether you can find any news out of that.

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in the act of March 2, 1917 (39 Stats. 969—976), that the period of trust on lands patented to the Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians in California, which trust expires during the calendar…

THE PRESIDENT HAS appointed the following as delegates on the part of the United States to the Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs to be held at Geneva, May 27, 1931.