Bill Taft: “The Executive can recommend but the legislature must enact.”

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.

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

I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks.

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…