Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"The Secretary of War shall have the supervision, management, and control of this monument."

"I don't think I had heard anything about it."

"Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, cut, injure, destroy, deface, or take away any trees or any other property on said lands, or to occupy, settle, or locate upon a..."

"I was more interested to see what we could do to improve them."