Herbert Hoover actually said...

"The fact is that the House plan will secure development of this great resource more effectively and more greatly in the interests of Tennessee than would the Senate plan."

"Nor would I approve that plan because it is not in the interest of Tennessee or the rest of the nation."

"Your course has been the only one that will secure an advancement of this development in the interest of the people of Tennessee."

"The people of the United States join me in extending to Your Majesty and to the people of Italy sincerest sympathy in the great losses suffered in the earthquake which has wrought such widespread dest..."