Campaign Address at Cleveland, Ohio
11/01/1940
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The estimates have been developed after analysis of the revenues, obligations, and reasonable needs of the Government.
This year I recommend that such items be curtailed.
If the forecast of tax receipts made by these experts show that the departmental estimates of expenditures will exceed the estimated tax rec...
We hope that the calendar year 1938 will bring an improvement in business conditions and, therefore, in tax receipts.