Herbert Hoover actually said...
No criticism of the work of the Commission, either direct or indirect, is implied but this investigation was of necessity based upon conditions maintaining before the emergency created by the drought and in some cases upon data over a period of so short experience as make it desirable that the Commission be afforded more time.
Context
Letter to the Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission on Duties on Cherries and Tomatoes.
04/06/1931