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I do hereby exempt Clarence E. Alderman from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until June 1, 1939.

I do hereby exempt Edward M. Kennard from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until May 1, 1939.

I also call upon the children to celebrate the gains they have made during the year in health and strength.

I call the people of the United States to the peaceful task of considering whether the children in their families and in each community are receiving the full benefit of our knowledge of how to promote the health of mothers and babies.

A passport issued to a husband or wife may include his or her spouse.

Only the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports in the United States.

Passports may be amended in the United States by the Department of State or any of the Passport Agents of the Department of State.

No passport shall be granted or issued to any other persons than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States.

Before a passport is issued to any person by or under the authority of the United States such person shall subscribe to and submit a written application duly verified by his oath before a person authorized and empowered to administer oaths.

Executive Order No. 6055 of February 28, 1933, withdrawing public lands in Colorado pending a resurvey, is hereby revoked.

I have none of the qualifications which would make me a successful dictator.

Let me state to you categorically that if such a joint resolution were passed by the Congress disapproving an order, I would, in the overwhelming majority of cases, go along with carefully considered Congressional action.

I can think of no cases where the President would not gladly yield to a clear expression of Congressional opinion.

The opposition has planted bogies under every bed.

Attempts at detailed reorganization by the Congress itself have failed many times in the past.

It is ordered that paragraph 4, Subdivision III, Schedule B of the Civil Service Rules be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

The reorganization bill now before the Congress is the culmination of an effort starting over forty years ago to make the business end, i.e., the Executive branch, of the Federal Government more business-like and more efficient.

Charges of dictatorship are made out of whole-cloth—even if I wanted to be a dictator, which Heaven knows, I do not.

Changes are bitterly fought by those who stand to lose some authority and by those who are so wedded to existing practices that they go to any length to prevent the slightest change which seeks greater efficiency.

I have no inclination to be a dictator.

I have too much historical background and too much knowledge of existing dictatorships to make me desire any form of dictatorship for a democracy like the United States of America.

Few Americans have possessed in such degree the confidence of statesmen at home and abroad as did this modest and self-effacing man.

I believe the proposals of the Hungarian Government should receive the most careful consideration of the Congress.

A great and unique figure has been lost to our national life in the death of Colonel House.

It is clearly the right of the Congress to undertake at any time any fair inquiry into the administration of the Tennessee Valley Authority or its policies which the Congress may deem in the public interest.