The One Hundred Thirty-Fourth Press Conference of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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CONFIDENTIAL
Press Conference #134,
Executive Offices of the White House,
June 29, 1934, 4.10 P. M.
THE PRESIDENT (Turning the papers on his desk face down) This is to see
that everything is properly hidden. (Laughter) I wasn't looking at
Russell (Mr. Young); it is all right.
Q Are you all ready to go this evening?
THE PRESIDENT: All I need is some sleep.
Q So say we all.
Q You had a long session of it last night, didn't you?
THE PRESIDENT: I sat up and drank beer with Barney Baruch and Joe Kennedy.
I did not do any work at all. It was awful -- two o'clock and I have
no excuse for it.
Q They hung a thermometer out here a while ago and it only got up to 1291.
THE PRESIDENT: Wait until you get to Cartagena. That is nothing, the
mercury boils down there.
MR. DONALDSON: All in.
THE PRESIDENT: I think the only news at the present moment is an order
which I signed this morning to see if we could correct a very diffi-
cult situation in regard to the purchases of various articles by the
Government. You know, we have been getting a series of identical
bids on the plea from the bidders that they are precluded from putting
in competitive bids by their filed prices with their respective Code
Authorities. We are going to try something new to see if we can
break that down. The Executive Order provides -- you can get a copy
of it after the Press Conference so that you can tell what it pro-
vides -- that any bidder for a Government contract of the United
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