Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I note that the appropriation requested by the Law Enforcement Commission for its work outside of prohibition has failed in the Senate."

"Nothing to my mind indicates more clearly the fact that crime is growing in general than the situation which we have in the prisons, both Federal and State, at the present moment."

"I do not think that we can abandon that program, and therefore I can't allow the work of the Commission to cease."

"I have asked them if they will go on and they have agreed to do so."