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His daughter once gave me a tour, a day I'll never forget. My mother-in-law, who spoils me wildly, planed a family vacation around getting me to Herbert Hoover’s museum in Iowa and Ulysses S. Grant’s home in Illinois. In all, I’ve visited 11...
He also rode his own mechanical bull and played "ding-dong ditch'em"—he would ring the White House doorbell and then run and hide. Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at the assassinations of three presidents: his father's,...
The Democrats didn’t mention Carter very much in 1984, 1988 and 1992 because he was an electoral burden ... Democrats ran against Herbert Hoover for 40 years. Bush will be a pariah for at least one more election.
If this sounds to you like something Herbert Hoover might have said, you’re right: It does and he did. Actually Kruggie, that doesn't sound like Hoover, that sounds like a big pile of bullshit. I have documented the reality of the Hoover...
“We’d Like To Thank You, Herbert Hoover” from Annie One of my favorite songs from Annie is a nice little lambast of the destructive austerity policies of Herbert Hoover. It’s both heartfelt and catchy. My favorite lyric: In ev’ry port he said “a...
Large, professionally organized corporations in the oil, mining, financial and railroad sectors allowed individuals to amass large fortunes. The Kennedys were wealthy because of the financial empire built by Joseph Kennedy. Herbert Hoover made millions...
Easily accessed evidence proves Mr. Krugman wrong. Here, for example, is economist Steven Horwitz: “the real size of government spending in 1933 was almost double that of 1929. The budget deficits of 1931 and
If this sounds to you like something Herbert Hoover might have said, you’re right: It does and he did. Now the results are in — and they’re exactly what three generations’ worth of economic analysis and all the lessons of history should have told you...
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933), was a mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". In... Full Article
