Herbert Hoover actually said...

"It is hereby directed that Capt Washington C. McCoy, master of the U.S.M.V.Kilkenny, Bureau of Navigation, be placed in the classified service."

"You are inscribing another bright chapter in the history of the American Red Cross."

"The very spirit that makes the Red Cross possible assures it a probity and devotion in service which no government can ever attain."

"You have, under most difficult handicaps, again demonstrated that it can meet and relieve human suffering in any national disaster."