Herbert Hoover actually said...

"After several years of delay in settlement of a site for a much needed bridge across San Francisco Bay, due to disagreements between the naval authorities, the Army engineers, the municipal and State ..."

"I have a number of questions about my trip to the West, and in view of the drought situation and the feeling that I can perhaps be of greater service here, I do not propose to go west--at least during..."

"The bridge will be constructed by local authorities."

"In any event, in the most acute areas we should now lay the foundation for effective local and State organization, the object of which is to prevent suffering amongst farm families deprived of support..."