Herbert Hoover actually said...

"Mrs. Jean N. Edington may be appointed to an appropriate position in the classified service without regard to the requirements of the civil service rules."

"Pursuant to authority contained in Sections 5 and 6 of the Act of Congress, approved June 10, 1922, the rates prescribed in said Act are hereby announced as effective for the fiscal year ending June 3..."

"We have sent recommendations to Congress to make an emergency appropriation to deal with this particular pest because it is probably the most dangerous thing that has attacked American horticulture."

"That is all that I have--that I am able to give you."