Excerpts from the Press Conference
01/13/1938
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National planning should start at the bottom.
We must act while there is yet time if we would preserve for ourselves and our posterity the natural sources of a virile national life.
The water-power resources of the nation must be protected from private monopoly and used for the benefit of the people.
It is important that we set up without delay some regional machinery to acquaint us with our problem.