Herbert Hoover actually said...

"This building will be not only the largest single public structure in the city, but in its actual floor space, it is said to be the largest office building in the world."

"In advising upon the divisions into which administrative work should be assigned, it is said that Alexander Hamilton proposed the creation of six departments--State, Treasury, War, Justice, Post Offic..."

"The beginnings of the idea to create a Department of Commerce are perhaps obscure."

"And its ideals are clear: that by cooperation and not by compulsion it should seek to assist in maintaining and giving the impulse of progress to commerce and industry in a nation whose successful eco..."