Posted on 08/11/2019 5:21:02 AM PDT by Perseverando
Herbert Clark Hoover was born AUGUST 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa.
At the age of 6, his father died.
Herbert was sent to live on the Osage Indian Reservation in Oklahoma with his Quaker uncle, who was an Indian agent.
There he made many Indian friends and attended the "Indian Sunday-School." Herbert Hoover was the only U.S. President to have lived on an Indian reservation.
His Canadian-born Quaker mother, Hulda, taught Sunday School and spoke at the Friend's Meeting House.
She died when he was only nine years old.
In 1885, the orphaned Herbert Hoover went to live with another Quaker uncle in Newberg, Oregon, where he was one of the first students to attend Friend's Pacific Academy (renamed George Fox University in 1949 in honor of the 17th century founder of the Quakers).
In 1891, he was accepted into Stanford University's inaugural class, being the first student to live in the dormitory.
He worked his way through school doing laundry, delivering papers, and working for the U.S. Geological Survey.
Herbert graduated from Stanford in 1895 with a degree in geology, and in 1897, he sailed across the ocean to work as a mining engineer in Western Australia.
In 1898, while overseas, he cabled a marriage proposal to Miss Lou Henry, with whom he had fallen in love with at Stanford.
She wired back her acceptance.
They were both 24 years old when they married on February 10, 1899.
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Hoover should be the subject of more term papers!
Hoover is the most falsely defamed US President.
HERBERT HOOVER:
“No man who has not occupied my position in Washington can fully realize the constant battle which must be carried on against incompetence, corruption, tyranny of government expanded into business activities ...
“Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.”
Afterwards, FDR wrote to him on April 5, 1945, promising that he would not let the United States recognize a Jewish State.
A week later, the ailing Roosevelt finally died, April 12, 1945.
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Hoover spoke at a reception on his 80th birthday in West Branch, Iowa, August 10, 1954, warning how socialism is the path to communism:
“I have witnessed on the ground in 20 nations the workings of the philosophy of that anti-Christ, Karl Marx.
“There rises constantly in my mind the forces which make for progress and those which may corrode away the safeguards of freedom in America ...
“Our Founding Fathers did not invent the priceless boon of individual freedom and respect for the dignity of men. That great gift to mankind sprang from the Creator and not from governments ...
“Today the Socialist virus and poison gas generated by Karl Marx and Friedreich Engels have spread into every nation on the earth ...
“Their dogma is absolute materialism which defies truth and religious faith ...”
Hoover continued:
“A nation is strong or weak, it thrives or perishes upon what it believes to be true.
“If our youth are rightly instructed in the faith of our fathers ... then our power will be stronger ...
“To this whole gamut of Socialist infections, I say to you ... God has blessed us with another wonderful word - ‘heritage.’
“The great documents of that heritage are not from Karl Marx. They are from the Bible, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
“Within them alone can the safeguards of freedom survive.”
There is a Hoover office building on the statehouse campus in Des Moines, IA.
Bryson is an Iowa fraud.
“His Vice-President, Charles Curtis, was the first Native American to hold that office, being a descendant of Osage chief Pawhuska.”
After reading about him I see a man who would have ended the great depression much earlier then FDR without the socialist legacy FDR left. How FDR abandoned the countries surrounding the USSR to life under a totalitarian regime every bit as oppressive as Hitler should be recognized as a moral treason that it was. Hoover’s legacy has been undermined by the leftest’s usual destruction of the reputation of anyone who opposes them.
In exchange for our treasure spent in Iraq, Hoover wanted to secure peace for the Jewish homeland. A great policy long forgotten.
Hoover’s responses to the Depression were mimicked by FDR - even as FDR heaped calumny on Hoover for fouling up the economy so bad that nobody could fix it.That wasn’t true, but what was true was that FDR, following and building on Hoover’s example, couldn’t fix it. Hoover was culpable for not having the patience to let the economy correct itself; FDR for doubling down on what had not worked.
What did stop the Depression was WWII. Not Pearl Harbor, but the invasion of Poland and the start of British purchases of war materiel from America. Initially Britain burned through its own financial reserves, and later FDR instituted Lend-Lease. But starting with the Fall of France, war materiel production was the priority of the US economy, and that opened the spigots of jobs and employment.
Hoover after his Presidency was resident for many years in the Waldorf Astoria. As was Cole Porter. Their apartments were located one over the other. A friend for many years entertained a few of us at lunch in 1969 about Hoover complaining to the hotel management many times about the loud piano keeping him awake at 8 or 9 pm. My friend who knew Hoover well said that he was the kindest most resourceful man he had ever met and he had gotten a raw deal not of his own making.
Probably the same reporter who
cited a “White Horse Souse.”
Coolidge was perfect for his time. Hoover was at a loss.
Anyone who blames Hoover for the Depression
is ignorant of history and possibly illiterate.
Hoover is the most falsely defamed US President.
Exactly. Facts prove Hoover’s executive ability. He’s been a scapegoat since FDR.
AIR, Hoover offered FDR an early takeover of the presidency to address the depression, but FDR declined, preferring the situation to stew like an albatross in a microwave oven until his inauguration.
He had no control over the Federal Reserve. Greenspan admitted the Fed caused the Great Depression.
The free market would have handled getting the economy back to equilibrium in short order if it weren't distorted for 10 years by constant government manipulation, starting with Hoover.
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