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Fifth Annual Message

October 29, 2020

Title: Fifth Annual Message Date: December 6, 1927 Location: Washington D.C. Members of the Congress: It is gratifying to report that for the fourth consecutive year the state of the Union in general is good. We are at peace. The country as a whole has had a prosperity never exceeded. Wages are at their highest […]

Press Conference, March 23, 1928

October 23, 2020

Date: March 23, 1928 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I don’t know of any connection between the possibility of the construction of one or two new vessels by the Panama Railroad S. S. Line and construction by the Shipping Board. This Panama line is one used entirely by the War Dept. for the […]

Press Conference, November 8, 1927

October 23, 2020

Date: November 8, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) Mr. Stearns is visiting us at the White House. He came in this morning. Today is his birthday and I am having a small dinner to celebrate that event at 7:00 o’clock this evening. Just 8 or 10 of his friends here in Washington […]

Press Conference, October 11, 1927

October 6, 2020

Date: October 11, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I don’t know of anything that is being done by the Washington authorities relative to the officers and crew of the President Roosevelt for rescuing the British freighter Antinoe. They have been honored by the British Government. Whether that would be considered sufficient I […]

Press Conference, September 16, 1927

October 5, 2020

Date: September 16, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) THE PRESIDENT: I am not certain whether I can attend the International Exhibition of Paintings which is to be held at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh on the 13th of October. I have been invited by Mr. James Francis Burke, former Member of Congress, […]