I don't know of any special Christmas pardons that are likely to come along.

I don't want to keep getting jackknives under false pretenses.

while I remain in the office of President I do not expect to make any arrangement whatever for any future kind of employment

his flight there has had a very pleasing effect

I haven't any present intention of going back on that end of Pennsylvania Avenue

all reports of that kind are without any foundation and will be unless they are officially announced by me

my desire to establish as soon as can be an air service between this country and the countries south of the Rio Grande

I have no doubt that his going there will increase the friendly relations between the people of Mexico and the people of the United States

So far as I know, they were not of a nature that encouraged the thought that further negotiation might bring about positive results, and so far as I have made inquiry of men in the Senate who were very friendly to the World Court proposal…

I have referred to the State Department a suggestion that came to me that something might be secured relative to the World Court by further negotiations.

I do not think the question of whether a man might be called a military man or not is one of very great importance in relation to the Governor Generalship of the Philippine Islands.

I think this—that the Governor Generalship of the Philippine Islands would probably be better administered, as any civil office would be, by a man who didn't have a predominantly military type of mind.