Herbert Hoover actually said...

"We have reduced expenses by doing away with the Governor at St. Johns."

"The government is ably conducted by Porto Rican-born citizens and there are today only three or four important officials upon the island who were not born there."

"The purpose of the transfer of the administration from the naval to a civil department is to see if we can develop some form of industry or agriculture which will relieve us of the present costs and l..."

"I have not given any great thought to that question."