Herbert Hoover actually said...

Knowing your public spirit I am most desirous that you should be a member of this committee.

It is essential that we should maintain the sound American tradition and spirit of voluntary aid in such emergency.

I am appointing a nation-wide committee to sponsor the American Red Cross effort to raise ten millions of dollars for the relief of the suff...

The American way of meeting such a relief problem has been through voluntary effort and for many years this effort has been centered in the ...