Excerpts from the Press Conference
01/14/1934
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I recommend that the Congress authorize the acceptance of the Constitution and the participation of the United States in...
Our participation in the Food and Agriculture Organization will be an essential step in this collaboration.
It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered ...