Herbert Hoover actually said...

I take great pleasure in extending to you a most cordial welcome in my own name and in that of my fellow country men.

Message Welcoming Prime Minister Pierre Laval of France.

10/20/1931

More Herbert Hoover Quotes

I am sure the American people have no desire to attempt to extract any sum beyond the capacity of any debtor to pay and it is our view that ...

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.

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