THE PRESIDENCY: Hoover to the People

During the first week of the 72nd Congress President Hoover sent three messages to the Capitol. One was on the State of the Union. One was on the Budget. One was on foreign affairs. Because he thus elaborated and separated his ideas, the ordinary citizen, no great reader of presidential messages at best, was left with only a muddled headline impression of the President's manifold purposes. Therefore last week President Hoover adopted a new wrinkle by addressing a fourth message to his countrymen through the Press. The President-to-the-People:

"In my recommendations to Congress...

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