Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I suggested that as the solution of the Muscle Shoals problem was a matter of major interest to the States of Tennessee and Alabama these States should set up a commission of their own representatives..."

"Hearings were held and after long consideration of the subject, the commission rendered to me a unanimous report which I now transmit for the consideration of the Congress."

"It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands now parts of the Lolo National Forest as defined by proclamation of April 30, 1912 (37 Stat. 1739- 1740), be, and the same are hereby, transferr..."

"It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status..."