FDR

The Congress has a perfect right constitutionally to exceed the budget, but, if the budget is exceeded, obviously the Congress must accept full responsibility.

If we had all the money in the world to spend I would gladly go ahead with road building in every county in the United States on an even greater scale than we are doing at the present time.

Speaking again of 'relativity,' if I have to get the budget down to a certain figure, obviously I must eliminate the proposed expenditures which provide the least work and favor those expenditures which give the most work.

Money spent on Federal aid highways takes very few people directly off the relief rolls.

I extend to Your Excellency my most sincere wishes that the controversy which regrettably exists between two sister republics may obtain a rapid, just, and pacific solution.

The Government of the Dominican Republic will not give the slightest ground for a disturbance of the peace of America.

Executive Order No. 5711 of September 14, 1931, temporarily withdrawing and reserving certain land for classification and in aid of legislation, is hereby revoked.

I feel they are of sufficient importance to warrant their passage at the earliest possible date.

I do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendatory regulation of the Acting Secretary of Agriculture.

I do hereby exempt Walter H. Beal from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until July 1, 1938.

The limits of the customs port of entry of Buffalo, New York, are hereby extended to include the city of Lackawanna.

Such an agricultural program will serve the long time welfare of our farmers and the nation.

I think most of us would agree that in the future it will be better to improve the instruments of progress than to discard them.

The exchange losses for such portion of the country may nevertheless be computed upon the basic rate prescribed for the country as a whole.

The loss is authorized to be computed on that basis.

The losses so sustained since April 1, 1934, or hereafter sustained thereon, shall be reimbursed.

The appreciation loss on net salary and net allowances, regardless of conversion, may be reimbursed.

I do proclaim that the following-described lands are hereby included in and reserved as part of the said Chattahoochee National Forest.

This reservation shall be known as the Sabine Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.

I do hereby authorize the Secretary of the Treasury... to extend the time in which... domestic animals... may be brought back into the United States free of duty... to twelve months.

The following-described lands... are hereby restored to the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition as provided by the said act of July 5, 1884, or as may be otherwise provided by law.

I do hereby exempt Mr. Woermann from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until February 1, 1939.

The limits of the customs port of entry of Wilmington, North Carolina, are hereby extended to include the Township of Northwest

I hereby designate and appoint the Secretary of the Interior as the agent of the President to execute all of the powers and functions vested in the President by the said act.

I hereby expressly authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Petroleum Conservation Division in the Department of the Interior.