Herbert Hoover actually said...

"The inscription in the hall below calls this 'A Living Memorial.'"

"No better memorial can be built to the American women of the World War--and no truer inspiration given to the women of today."

"May they ever see in this memorial a token of the honor and affection in which their country holds them."

"To the patriotic mothers who gave their sons, to the many other loyal women who lost those dear to them for their country's sake, to the noble women, so many of them nurses, who died in war service, t..."