Herbert Hoover actually said...

"The Gridiron Club platform would also contain constructive planks—for instance, it would insist that there must be more humor, more satire, more within government."

"Our official life would no doubt be confined to those things that furnish the raw material for news or entertainment, humor, satire, exposure, wit, eccentricities, combats, attacks, or fights and fail..."

"I have endeavored to envisage what sort of government we would have, if our government was conducted so as to give full expression and weight to the matters which seem of interest on these Gridiron oc..."

"Persons formerly employed abroad as United States diplomatic or consular officers of career or foreign service officers of career for the period of at least four years, for service in the Department o..."