Herbert Hoover actually said...

The 1926 expenditures on Army, Navy, public works, and Post Office deficit is $790 million.

The President's News Conference

07/18/1929

More Herbert Hoover Quotes

I stated that we have there about 700 marines, and that we are confronted with a difficult problem, the solution of which is still obscure.

Nothing more than appears in the message.

I have today sent up Colonel Hurley's name as Secretary of War.

I stated what the situation is in the message to Congress--as we see it.