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Statement About a Special Session of Congress.

May 22, 1931

THE PRESIDENT said:

"I do not propose to call an extra session of Congress. I know of nothing that would so disturb the healing processes now undoubtedly going on in the economic situation. We cannot legislate ourselves out of a world of economic depression; we can and will work ourselves out. A poll of the Members of Congress would show that a large majority agree with me in opposing an extra session."

Herbert Hoover, Statement About a Special Session of Congress. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/212954

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