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Herbert Hoover, in a suit and hat, stands with three relief workers with sacks of flour, in a publicity photo for postwar European relief in 1919. (National Archives & Records Administration ...
In 1958, when he was in his mid-eighties, Herbert Hoover wrote a book called “The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson.” It is a very interesting book, written by one U.S. president about another.
WASHINGTON—An unlikely insult has emerged on the 2024 presidential campaign trail: “Herbert Hoover.” On this Presidents Day, the one who presided over the start of the Great Depression ...
Died: October 20, 1964 . Despite being at the helm of government when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed.
Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was known as "the great humanitarian," largely because of his work during World War I and the years following his presidency.
On this day in history, Oct. 22, 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden ...