Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I AM SHOCKED to learn of the sudden death of Miss Van Rensselaer."

"Her passing will bring a sense of personal loss to thousands from whom her quiet devotion to every cause looking to the well-being of children and to the enrichment of the life of women had evoked the..."

"His example and the example of your spiritual forebears challenge you who are leaders of this generation to a commensurate share in solving the hardly less difficult problems of our own day."

"An equal courage and boldness in declaring the sound principles of life and government which they helped bequeath to us."