Herbert Hoover actually said...

"We are issuing a report that we have received from the committee that was formed to expedite construction work in public utilities, but you will get that outside, and I don't need to read it to you."

"I wish to take this opportunity to endorse so fine an effort and to urge all music loving Americans to lend their support in making it a permanent national institution."

"It is a vital movement to establish a national organization for young American singers, composers and writers."

"Due honor should be paid his memory as a man of wonderful character as well as a poet of universal appeal."