Bill Taft: “I am just about as much surprised at being here as you are at seeing me.”

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in all respects to the status existing prior to the said proclamation of March 2, 1909, as though the inclusion of the lands within the Sitgreaves…

I think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by law.

I can not close this message without inviting the attention of Congress again to the necessity for the erection of a building to contain the public archives.

Now, Therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress and the joint resolution of Congress herein named, declare and proclaim the fact that the…