Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

Mr. Hoover, your dedication and devotion to public service are so long and so well known, your accomplishments in that service are so great ...

And we shall again reaffirm that the great tradition of sanctuary lives on in America.

This includes Netherlands' farmers whose land has been ruined by floods of salt water, Greek mountain people whose herds have been despoiled...

I urge upon the Congress the following: