At his Rapidan camp President Hoover sat for a whole day pondering ways & means to accelerate the Government's $565,000,000 public building program as an aid to unemployment. With him were Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ferry K. Heath in charge of such construction and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General John W. Philp. The President's mind was full of the new buildings which would soon replace the temporary Wartime structures of plaster board and stucco in Washington which now house many a potent Government agency, many a precious record. Thoroughly familiar was he...
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