Herbert Hoover actually said...

"My suggestion for the past 5 years has been that the responsibility should be lodged with the Executive with the right of Congress to review the actions taken."

"Miss Ann Halloran may be appointed to the position of stenographer in the Veterans' Administration without compliance with the requirements of the civil-service rules."

"We need no attempt at canonization of George Washington."

"No incident and no part in these great events, which have echoed and reechoed throughout the world for a century and a half, can be separated from the name and the dominant leadership of George Washin..."