Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I and my fellow countrymen in dedicating this day to our own dead will be keenly mindful of your own country's great sacrifice and will bend our heads in silent prayer for Belgium's heroic dead."

"Mrs. Nesta Stephens Long may be appointed a clerk in the Customs Service in the district of Arizona for a period of one year without regard to her standing on the civil-service junior stenographic reg..."

"I AM SHOCKED to learn of the sudden death of Miss Van Rensselaer."

"The Nation has lost a great citizen, and all who knew her a loyal friend."