Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I am advised by the Secretary of War that no record has been found of the enrollment, muster-in, or service in Company G, Fourth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, during the war with Spain, of any..."

"It does not, therefore, appear that he was engaged in the service upon which this legislation is based."

"I regret that I cannot do so."

"No question of corporate influence or personal popularity does or should enter into this question."