Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I send you renewed assurance of the nation's gratitude and devotion to your needs."

"It is my privilege to convey to you at this holiday season the nation's tribute of remembrance and gratitude for your service in defense of our country."

"In extending to you a greeting of good cheer at Christmas I express my earnest personal wish and that of all our people that the New Year may bring to you abundant blessings of contentment, health, ho..."

"Beyond this, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which I have proposed to the Congress, aside from its purposes to aid agricultural credit associations and the export of agricultural commodities an..."