The tribute which you and the Belgian people are paying on Decoration Day to the memory of those American soldiers and sailors who gave their lives for the cause of justice and whose bodies rest in Belgium, echoes and resounds in every…
Herbert Hoover
The Public Record
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1929, to March 4, 1933. A member of the Republican Party, Hoover was born in Iowa but later moved to California. Before his presidency, he served as the Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928, where he focused on promoting economic growth and efficiency. Hoover was also known for his humanitarian efforts during World War I, leading relief efforts in Europe and earning a reputation as a skilled administrator.
I and my fellow countrymen in dedicating this day to our own dead will be keenly mindful of your own country's great sacrifice and will bend our heads in silent prayer for Belgium's heroic dead.
Mrs. Nesta Stephens Long may be appointed a clerk in the Customs Service in the district of Arizona for a period of one year without regard to her standing on the civil-service junior stenographic register.
The Nation has lost a great citizen, and all who knew her a loyal friend.
Her passing will bring a sense of personal loss to thousands from whom her quiet devotion to every cause looking to the well-being of children and to the enrichment of the life of women had evoked their warm affection and their deep…
I wish especially to pay tribute to her great services in the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, and in the President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership.
His example and the example of your spiritual forebears challenge you who are leaders of this generation to a commensurate share in solving the hardly less difficult problems of our own day.
An equal courage and boldness in declaring the sound principles of life and government which they helped bequeath to us.
The back of the depression cannot be broken by any single Government undertaking.





