Herbert Hoover: “Such a career is a service and an inspiration to humanity, and deserves the tribute of public praise.”

I earnestly hope that this may be done.

There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.

I had the pleasure of his acquaintance and I shared the admiration he inspired in all who knew him by his joyous humanity and his unlimited interest in and devotion to the happiness and well-being of others.

So much of the order of June 8, 1926, creating Reservoir-Site Reserve No. 17, as affects the lands hereinafter described is hereby revoked