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 it is in the matter of cruisers that we are most deficient.
There are some letters being received here at my office against the building program and some communications are being received in favor of ...
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 available, and that so fa...
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; that is, through th...
I should expect that under any commission that might be set up or any agency that might be used for the prosecution of this work, that it wo...
It seems to me that the decision about that would be this—that this is something that the United States Government ought to do.
The work could go right on and the commission report to the next Congress, and on that report the next Congress would then legislate.
My position, as I suggested the other day, was fully set out in my message, wherein I stated that I thought the property that was to be bene...
In no small degree you are the keepers of the public conscience.