Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I am shocked and grieved at the death of my friend, your father, Representative Stephen G. Porter, and I offer you my deepest sympathy in your bereavement."

"The public school system is America's distinctive and magnificent ally of the home in this most precious trust."

"I congratulate you most cordially upon your remarkably interesting and human news reports of the Byrd Antarctic expedition."

"He will be long and gratefully remembered for his important services to the Nation, and I gladly bear witness to them of personal knowledge."