Title:  State of the Union Addresses of Herbert Hoover

Author:  Herbert Hoover

Release Date:  February, 2004 [EBook #5037] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on April 11, 2002] [Date last updated:  December 16, 2004]

Edition:  11

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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Dates of addresses by Herbert Hoover in this eBook: 
  December 3, 1929
  December 2, 1930
  December 8, 1931
  December 6, 1932

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State of the Union Address
Herbert Hoover
December 3, 1929

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

The Constitution requires that the President “shall, from time to time, give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”  In complying with that requirement I wish to emphasize that during the past year the Nation has continued to grow in strength; our people have advanced in comfort; we have gained in knowledge; the education of youth has been more widely spread; moral and spiritual forces have been maintained; peace has become more assured.  The problems with which we are confronted are the problems of growth and of progress.  In their solution we have to determine the facts, to develop the relative importance to be assigned to such facts, to formulate a common judgment upon them, and to realize solutions in spirit of conciliation.

FOREIGN RELATIONS

We are not only at peace with all the world, but the foundations for future peace are being substantially strengthened.  To promote peace is our long-established policy.  Through the Kellogg-Briand pact a great moral standard has been raised in the world.  By it fifty-four nations have covenanted to renounce war and to settle all disputes by pacific means.  Through it a new world outlook has been inaugurated which has profoundly affected the foreign policies of nations.  Since its inauguration we have initiated new efforts not only in the organization of the machinery of peace but also to eliminate dangerous forces which produce controversies amongst nations.