Herbert Hoover actually said...

"The public school system is America's distinctive and magnificent ally of the home in this most precious trust."

"I congratulate you most cordially upon your remarkably interesting and human news reports of the Byrd Antarctic expedition."

"I am shocked and grieved at the death of my friend, your father, Representative Stephen G. Porter, and I offer you my deepest sympathy in your bereavement."

"I have asked them if they will go on and they have agreed to do so."