interlude in herbert hoover, a rare fulfillment. from which he was being faithful, when in which public service - consciously nourished ideals, required every question, the life to which god had called him, whether humble or exalted. the conception that could be mentioned without self-consciousness. each person should show diligence in his calling, that he should purchase simplicity and that he should accept responsibility for some unique contribution to the total community. the most important thing to say about herbert hoover is he has demonstrated an ethic which is identical with that which made america great. some suppose we have outgrown it or we ought to outgrow it but a life like that which we honor today is the best reputation of that position. it is not unreasonable to see herbert uber's life in 6 major chapters, first, a boy in iowa and oregon. third, engineer in various countries, director of relief. it might be supposed the last of these chapters - and said his influence has gone from strength to strength. became very ide

herbert hoover, the 34th u.s. president was boehner's childhood home in iowa in 1964. using archival footage, audio visual archivist lynn smith looked at the events surrounding that day. the hoover presidential foundation is the host of this event, it is just over an hour. today's presentation is called hoover's last trip home. our speaker is linda smith, the audio visual archivist at the hoover presidential library museum, where she's worked since november, 2000. her previous work experience includes serving as the government documents departments supervisor at the university of denver and archivist for the forest service in montana. she is a certified archivist and holds a b. a. in history from the university of northern colorado, masters in archival management from colorado state university and an nfl i. s. from the university of denver. she is chaired the archivist committee on ethics and professional conduct and has taught workshops on off ethics and copyright law for the midwest archives conference and the society of rocky mountain archivists. in her career she's

the friends of herbert hoover big and small. who have come out to pay their final respects to this man who will be buried here within the hour. the beauty of this scene as one which is difficult to describe. the grass has passed the peak of its summer green. established upon the burial site here now, in a complete ring, are the floral tribute wreaths that were brought here to the site. of course as chief among them is a wreath from the president of the united states, a wreath with red white blue carnations. is very difficult to establish the size of the crowd which has gathered here, but it is very, very large. as i look across now to the, directly to the west, i see that they are also lined up, people behind the fence, behind the military court which has been established by some 240 members of the iowa national guard, looking directly across the valley from this hilltop to the view upon which the town itself sets. there is an area -- probably people standing there in some 20, 20 to 25 deep. and all the way back to the library i

as we pay our final respects to thy servant, herbert hoover. therefore, we commit his body to the ground. and his soul to die eternal keeping. amen. >> [inaudible] the burial service the microphone is now being moved to one side. preparations are now being made to present a wreath of president johnson. the presidential wreath is now being placed at the front of the casket by general dodge, the fifth army commander. general dodge steps back and the ceremony is about to conclude. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ -- rendering taps, colors now being folded over the simple coffin. by the body bearers, made up of enlisted man of all the services. an air force man standing at attention with the presidential flag, the national color guard made up of navy, army and marine personnel bearing the national colors. the national emblem now being folded over the coffin of herbert hoover. now being passed, one of the enlisted men, reaches forward. general dodge takes it. places it under his left arm. returns his salute. the body bearer's now step

i brought up herbert hoover truman certainly had an effect on herbert hoover by bringing him to the old oval office and over. i it's known he was given some help to it was asked by truman to help in europe something he had done before. yeah as well in his -- to do that and hoover went out of the overall office and cry. he was driven was very generous that way i mean and i i don't know the whole story between the the the bad feelings between hoover and roosevelt and i mean, i know they they never spoke. i don't think they even go to the inauguration together, but that was but true very true was very generous and really and really really brought him into thinking and and two for appreciated it whoever came to the dedication of the true blood library and in 1556, and and i think the truman would have and i truman had had fallen down and he would have so he couldn't go to he couldn't go to hoover's funeral, but he would have gone if you could for um you i think you mentioned that. at the end is interesting as this book is by the way. that the truman presidency is somewhat uninspiring. is th

he and herbert hoover lived long lives! they were happy to sign everything that was put before them so these books in a rare to find inscribed people, he was happy to do it. same with hoover, as i mentioned. how was his riding in this? is it all his writing? did he, what was he saying about those who were enemies or friends before? did he make any new enemies writing this diary? i think he reawakened some old enemies. the writing is not very good, and he had a lot of help. the parts where i think the real truman comes through was whenever he would let loose on henry wallace or james byrd. he would never -- and then eisenhower, he would let eisenhower have it. from the 52 campaign when eisenhower ran against stevenson, and truman and he had always had a very respectful relationship. then it all changed. i think truman was personally deeply offended when eisenhower didn't come to the defense of general marshall, when mccarthy attacked. he would call martial -- the essence was, morally bankrupt. so there was no forgiveness pos

the nation had had enough of herbert hoover, that solemn, sour-faced presidents. the roosevelt seems on could be heard throughout the land and when people hear the cheerful sound of, happy days are here again, they believed, or instead at least they wanted to believe. i would sing it for you, i'll spare that punishment. the forces were, if you're old enough you can remember, this became more or less a theme song of the democratic party for years. and it may still be for all i kn ow. but for many many, many years, happy days are here again. happy days are here again, the skies above are clear again, let's all sing a song of cheer again, happy days are here again. in chicago, where he accepted the democratic nomination, he made a statement that led to the phrase that we still use, a very common phrase, in which he said, in accepting the nomination, i pledge to you and i pledge to myself a new deal for the american people. and he later said, and this is a quote, the country needs and unless i'm mistake its temperament, country demands a bold, [inaudible] experimentat

you herbert hoover, the 34th u.s. president was boehner's childhood home in iowa in 1964. using archival footage, audio visual archivist lynn smith looked at the events surrounding that day. the hoover presidential foundation is the host of this event, it is just over an hour. today's presentation is called hoover's last trip home. our speaker is linda smith, the audio visual archivist at the hoover presidential library museum, where she's worked since november, 2000. her previous work experience includes serving as the government documents departments supervisor at the university of denver and archivist for the forest service in montana. she is a certified archivist and holds a b. a. in history from the university of northern colorado, masters in archival management from colorado state university and an nfl i. s. from the university of denver. she is chaired the archivist

most recent catholic nominee had been new york governor, al smith, who had been defeated by herbert hoover in 1928. there was a lingering fear amount democrats that if nominated, kennedys religion would be a significant impediment to his election in november. during the primary campaign, candidates decided to address the issue head-on, setting to audience time and time again, i've used to believe that it was denied the night to be president on the day i was baptized. the effectiveness of that approach was demonstrated by kennedy's big three in the west virginia primary, particularly significant because that was a state whose population was 95% protestant. boasted by that victory, kennedy went on to win the democratic nomination the first ballot. the most controversial developments of the democratic convention involved kennedy's choice of lyndon johnson as his vice presidential running mate. the choice was repugnant, that was some reasons behind, it the first johnson was undeniably the man of genuine ability in real power. he was an energetic and effective campaigner. perhaps most important

really herbert hoovers was the first one that had that pre-planning that had gone into it. yeah, and as you've pointed as we both pointed to the the planned element of it is as geneus said, okay. well, you don't know when when it's going to happen. my gosh with john f kennedy, you really really don't know when it's going to occur. yet a funeral still needs to take place and needs to take place relatively quickly. so nicola if you could talk to us, you've got this fabulous museum here in dallas the sixth floor museum, but a great deal that that covers jfk's funeral. how were they able to do that? well, i think the last thing the presidential couple expected when they made their visit to texas into dallas was to have the four days in november and a national funeral and uniting the world and in sorrow, but mrs. kennedy was inspired by lincoln's funeral procession. so with great detail did she plan that and was enormous grace and support from her team? but the sexual museum really chronicles the assassination and addresses those chaotic days leading up to the assassination the

>> well, herbert hoover, as a lot of historians discovered, did the exact opposite. he boosted spending, substantially -- amazingly -- substantially increased taxes, destroyed the global trading system with a massive trade war. to he went in the opposite direction. if he'd left the economy alone, people forget today going back in time, in 1920-21, we had a depression worse than the first year, year and a half of what we call the great depression. what did the government do? cut taxes, cut spending, cut regulations. within a year the economy was recovering, within 18 months we had full employment again. neil: what happens then, obviously, a midterm election year. i got a sense republicans are just going to watch this play out. they're in the minority, they can't do anything if they wanted to. the democrats are going to rally around some sort of infrastructure, more spending which at least got this sparked to begin with. other things, i get that. but i'm just wondering if you do nothing, what happens? >> doing nothing would be better than doing bad things. if you with

unfortunately, herbert hoover came in, and even though he was republican and he served in coolidge -- coolidge called him wonder boy. hoover was a good businessman, he was a mining engineer, and he did great humanitarian things in world war i, but as secretary of commerce, coolidge had no time for him because he was a big government guy. even though he had the hoover institution in stanford which is all about free markets, hoover himself -- hoover took the tax rate from 25% to 65%. i know there was restricted tariffs during these republican years, but not like that. it was a terrible mistake. it turned what was a modest downturn a major depression, than fdr, in my view, made it worse because he kept raising taxes and kept regulating and kept controlling prices. i am reading these books and i like to productize about these books. i love the gilded age stuff personally. if i had to do it over again, you could kind of plot me -- i would have liked to have been -- i don't know, grover cleveland, a democrat, is one of my favorite presidents. he was a pro gold, spending cutter, would not fa

unfortunately, herbert hoover came in, and even though he was republican and he served in coolidge -- coolidge called him wonder boy. hoover was a good businessman, he was a mining engineer, and he did great humanitarian things in world war i, but as secretary of commerce, coolidge had no time for him because he was a big government guy. even though he had the hoover institution in stanford which is all about free markets, hoover himself -- hoover took the tax rate from 25% to 65%. i know there was restricted tariffs during these republican years, but not like that. it was a terrible mistake. it turned what was a modest downturn a major depression, than fdr, in my view, made it worse because he kept raising taxes and kept regulating and kept controlling prices. i am reading these books and i like to productize about these books. i love the gilded age stuff personally. if i had to do it over again, you could kind of plot me -- i would have liked to have been -- i don't know, grover cleveland, a democrat, is one of my favorite presidents. he was a pro gold, spending cutter, would not fa

herbert hoover organized neutral shipping, countries like norway and sweden, germans could inspect it, diplomatic breakthroughs, send in neutral shipping, pick up the grain. if putin blocks it he has to answer why ukraine did supply food for 125 million people on the edge of starvation, 50% of the world food is from ukraine. if putin blocks it, we send in neutral naval ships like countries like sweden to escort them, if putin -- i don't think he would block it. he wants to us an the food weapon to win in ukraine what he could not win on the battle field, pressure on ukraine. >> sandra: interesting point. >> use neutral shipping to get the food out. if he wants to starve hundreds of millions, i don't think he can withstand that kind of pressure. >> sandra: just a step back and put it in perspective, ukraine and russia account for 30% of the world's wheat supply. you are talking about an astronomical amount of food supply concentrated in that one area of the world. so the world is dependent on these grains. you look at what's happening here at home, questions about whether or not the un