Herbert Hoover actually said...

"The importance and the gravity of the occasion have been recognized in the dispatch to London of the leading men of every country."

"I recommend that, as an act of grace and without reference to the question of the legal liability of the United States, an appropriation in the amount of $500 be made to effect settlement of this clai..."

"The resolve to advance world peace by mutual good will and by the limitation of naval armaments is the earnest purpose of the British and the American peoples and of their governments and it is my hop..."

"I also desire to reciprocate all Your Majesty's good wishes for the new year."