Herbert Hoover actually said...

Your Association has performed a very useful function in coordinating engineering, manufacturing, equipment and industrial aspects of the program.

Message to the American Road Builders Association.

01/10/1932

More Herbert Hoover Quotes

I wish to take this occasion also to frankly state my views upon our relations to German reparations and the debts owed to us by the Allied ...

We are not involved in the discussion of strictly European problems, of which the payment of German reparations is one.

They are aware of it. You can put it that way.

No, no payments due until the 15th of December.