Herbert Hoover actually said...

"It is indeed fitting that such a Shrine should be adorned with memorials of their supreme sacrifice, and that our countrymen should resort there for remembrance."

"It was emphasized that the economies are no wise at the expense of dismissals from the service or through reductions in salaries."

"In effecting the savings there will be no decrease in personnel excepting only as develops through natural changes incident to death and resignations."

"The Post Office officials advise the President that the indefensible practice of payment to political organizations for Post Office appointments in some Southern States has been absolutely stamped out..."