Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I see no particular reasons for making any public statements about it, either directly or indirectly."

"He stated that he could not believe and, therefore, would not admit that the United States Senate was unable to legislate and that the interests of the country required that legislation should be comp..."

"He urged the Republican leaders to get together and see if they could not expedite the early completion of the schedules and thus send the bill to conference with the House within the next 2 weeks."

"The discovery of radium was an outstanding triumph of research in the realm of pure science."