Herbert Hoover actually said...

Someone has offered him two or three times the pay the Government can afford, and he has responsibilities to his family that I cannot deny.

Statement About the Resignation of George E. Akerson as Secretary to the President

01/01/1931

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Time always helps in these things, and there is no occasion for any exaggerated anxiety about it.