October 14, 1930
DR. WILBUR will remain in the Cabinet. The University will gladly extend his leave as long as it is necessary, and he is too valuable a man to lose out of the Federal service. Being one of the trustees of that institution myself, I can speak with more authority than the student daily.
Note: Secretary Wilbur was president of Stanford University before becoming a member of the President's Cabinet.
Herbert Hoover, Statement About Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211968