Excerpts of the President's News Conference
10/22/1928
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It is my intention that the American representatives at Geneva should continue to discuss with the representatives of the other nations ther...
It has been the hope of the American Government, constantly expressed by the Congress since the Washington Conference, that a favorable oppo...
At that time we were engaged in a great building program which, upon its completion, would have given us first place on the sea.
I am sure that all governments and all peoples would choose a system of naval limitation in preference to consciously reverting to competiti...