Excerpts from the Press Conference
05/17/1937
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I don't want to be put in a position of having to say that Community A is sufficiently solvent to increase its taxes.
I don't think the country wants a filibuster.
It seems to me that that is pretty tough, not only on the President, but on the communities of the United States.
I would just as soon see a program like that go through.