Herbert Hoover actually said...

"It is significant not only to you, but to the whole Nation by reason of your past services and your potentialities for even greater usefulness in the future."

"I congratulate you on the achievements of a half century of practical idealism."

"The general tendency in all of these situations is to rather overexaggerate them."

"Now, the reparations postponement has in our view taken the most dangerous strain off the whole situation."