It doubled the appropriation that I proposed for the Shipping Board and I think added $6,000,000 or $8,000,000 to the Army bill, and it is true that if it goes on at that rate ther...
Of course, according to my best judgment, there should be added to the sums I have already mentioned $65,000,000 that ha...
I have understood that there was something of a propaganda under way against any Navy building program.
I am not, of course, an expert at all on what is the type of ship that we need most, but I am advised by the Navy that i...
There are some letters being received here at my office against the building program and some communications are being r...
No, I have given you the wrong number.
But I think if it is understood that this is a plan toward which the Navy is to work in the future as funds become avail...
I think it has already been announced that I appointed Colonel Latrobe to be my Aide.
I think it would be the best plan, so far as I can judge, to proceed to do this work in accordance with the present law;...
I should expect that under any commission that might be set up or any agency that might be used for the prosecution of t...
It seems to me that the decision about that would be this—that this is something that the United States Government ought...