Herbert Hoover actually said...

"Pursuant to authority contained in Sections 5 and 6 of the Act of Congress, approved June 10, 1922, the rates prescribed in said Act are hereby announced as effective for the fiscal year ending June 3..."

"It is on this national stage that the great drama of our political life has been played."

"It is the wish and the demand of the American people that our new buildings shall comport with the dignity of the Capital of America."

"No one in 150 years has been able to improve upon it."