FDR: “You will report to me... the steps which you are undertaking to reduce…”

On the recordApril 12, 1937

You will report to me... the steps which you are undertaking to reduce expenditures and the amount of the estimated saving resulting therefrom.

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Democratic · New York

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Message to all Departments and Agencies on Eliminating Unnecessary Expenditures.

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