Hoobert Heever...
Hoover was an extraordinary human being, a great American and uniquely productive. This is an excellent piece. (Among other things it reminds us that Arab kings were opposed to Israel, not that they peacefully set aside land and welcomed them to the neighborhood because of their distress over the holocaust...worse than fiction that lie is).
It’s sad to see that Hoover who did so much good in the world was not able to implement his vision as President....
Thank you for the link.
I’ve been to his birthplace and presidential library in West Branch many times. But I learned an awful lot I did NOT know from this.
I also remember my mother and aunt taking me to hear him speak at an event in West Branch when I was a wee child. I don’t remember much about it. Only that we sat on a blanket and I was not able to see who he was being a child and probably very far away.
Hoover’s election shows the dangers of having a technocrat as President... Jimmy Carter seconded that “learning experience.”
wow...great read....thanks
Superb engineer, wonderful humanitarian, lousy President.
Herbert Hoover, known as the Great Humanitarian, probably saved more lives than any other person in history
Good president? Bad president? I’ll leave that to others. But definitely a great man and a uniquely American life.
Hoover was a brilliant engineer and businessman but he believed strongly in big government. He was a technocrat who thought he could wield government with surgical precision to engineer solutions to anything. Consequently he kept trying to “fix” what became the great depression with more and bigger government meddling. His good intentions made the depression worse. He was basically no different than FDR, he was just the guy everyone blame while FDR, doing very similar stuff, was considered a heroic champion of the little guy.
The Stock Market crashed just eight months into Hoover’s term in office.
Hoover should be the subject of more term papers!
Hoover is the most falsely defamed US President.
“His Vice-President, Charles Curtis, was the first Native American to hold that office, being a descendant of Osage chief Pawhuska.”
In exchange for our treasure spent in Iraq, Hoover wanted to secure peace for the Jewish homeland. A great policy long forgotten.
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.
Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon should’ve succeeded Coolidge as President in 1929.