Herbert Hoover actually said...

"[T]he "leave it alone liquidationists" headed by [my] Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, who felt that government must keep its hands off and let the slump liquidate itself."

"Herbert Hoover did call business leaders into the White House for conferences, and did plead with them not to fire workers or cut wages too much."

"Roosevelt's deficit spending did pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression."

"Enlisted men of the Marine Corps having established their special qualifications in the use of the arm or arms which they are required to use, under such regulations and conditions as are now, or may ..."