in 1928, herbert hoover said we were on the threshold of abolishing poverty. years later he complained his opponents were playing politics with human misery. was hoover the villain? well, i don't know that hoover was a villain. hoover was carrying on the existing point of view that had dominated the behavior of the government up until that time-- namely, that it wasn't the government's business. laissez faire was the way in which the economy should operate. the price system would make the necessary adjustments. if things were going well, people would make profits, and if they weren't, they wouldn't make profits and that would help in the adjusting process. this was the state of mind. this was what economists were saying, and the government had behaved that way for a long, long, long time. as the 1920s faded and with them, the memories of prosperity the 1930s brought an awareness that there was a serious split between traditional economic theories and present economic realities. john maynard keynes was building a theory that dealt with total purchasing power--

it swept dwight eisenhower to victory in 1952 the first republican president since herbert hoover. hoover, eisenhower inherited a prosperous economy and was forced to watch as that economy slid into a recession. hoover responded with a huge tax increase that deepened the depression. what would ike do? would he repudiate 20 years of modern economics? when eisenhower took office in 1953, he inherited a prosperity that was bubbling along since the postwar boom. factories worked at capacity to fill the demand then worked overtime to build the machinery needed to fight the korean war. ike promised to end the war and in july 1953 he did. there wasn't time for rejoicing. by august, the economy had stalled. war orders were halted. there was no explosion of consumer demand to help. where would ike turn for advice? arthur burns chaired the council of economic advisers. george humphrey was secretary of the treasury. they didn't always agree. he used to say when arthur burns came "here comes arthur with his kit of tools." he meant his tools for dealing with the recession. at various times he g

herbert hoover downstairs and that has been done. >> well let's go sit down. es in china, then, weren't you mr. hoover? >> yes, i went to china originally as a part of the engineering firm i mentioned to you as the chief engineer to the then-department of mines. it had been created by the german government. that job came to an end by the boxer uprising which threw the government out. and mrs. hoover and i had to spend a month under artillery fire until the american marines came in and rescued us. that ended that job. >> outside of your experience in the boxer rebellion, mr. hoover, how are your relations generally with the chinese? >> oh the chinese are a very friendly people. i traveled over a big part of china during the two years prior to that, and had nothing but courtesies with everybody. i, of course was supposed to have an official position. there's nothing to comment on, particularly they're an in if ifi infinitely friendly people they're highly unrealistic, and it's the total aspect of china except in a very narrow circle. >> mr. hoover why do you thin

. ♪ >> in 1930, president herbert hoover, for whom the dam is named, signed the bill to get it startedthere was a combine of six major construction firms and men and machines went to work to build this dam of on presidents its size. a modern civil engineering wonder. reclamation engineers rushed to completion specifications and design drawings. the dam site completed their surveys and investigations. the thunder of man's determination to dock or the colorado river reverberated canyon the sheer black is construction got underway. the first major task was to divert the river around the dam site area to do this, for tunnels, two on each side were drilled through the canyon walls. crews at the dam site completed their surveys and investigations. the thunder of man's determination to conquer the colorado river paraded between black canyon as construction got underway. the first major task was to divert river around the dam site. four tunnels were drilled to the canyon walls. each 56 feet in diameter, they averaged 4000 feet in length. drilled holes were packed with dynamite and plaster. wor

herbert hoover. >>> sit down, ray. >> thank you, sir.olution and peace. the purpose of it is to present the complete history of this world since the beginning of the first war i. it has many objectives. one of them is to aid in the development of measures of peace out of the display of the experience of the world in that way. it covers economic, military, other questions. it is now the haven of historians from all over the world. because the german war lie brave was destroyed in the last war. the french war library was destroyed. and the british war library was greatly damaged. this is practically the only complete story of what has happened in the last 50 years. >> how did the idea of a library start? >> i was crossing the north sea on a usual journey to bet jump in connection with relief and i had a book with me to read of written by andrew d. white. he was the great historian of the french revolution. >> yes. >> and he complained in that book that he had not been able to present the life of the people in general of france because of t

in about an hour nbc's a conversation with herbert hoover. president discussed his childhood and life beyond the presidency, his time in china and involvement supplying food to civilians during world war i. a u.s. army film captured captain william johnston. each week americanhirhi8hstory reel america brings you archival films. 45 years ago on july 20, 1969 as millions around the world watched on live television, neil armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon. next a half hour nasa documentary chronicling the apollo 11 mission from liftoff. >> we copy you down eagle. >> houston, the eagle has landed. >> roger tranquility we copy you on the ground. you got a bunch of guys that were about to turn blue. we're breathing again. >> we're getting a picture on the tv. there's a great deal of contrast. currently it's upside down but can he can make out a fair amount of detail. okay. neil we can see you coming down the latter now. >> sunday july 20th, 1969, around the world nearly a billion people watched this moment on television as th

in 1930, president herbert hoover sign the appropriations bill to begin construction. contract was awarded in 1931 to six companies incorporated. a combine of six major construction firms. man and machines went to work to build this dam of unprecedented size, this modern civil engineering wonder. reclamation engineers rushed to completion specifications and design drawings. crews at the dam site completed their surveys and investigations. the thunder of man's determination to conquer the colorado river paraded between black canyon as construction got underway. the first major task was to divert river around the dam site. four tunnels were drilled to the canyon walls. each 56 feet in diameter, they averaged 4000 feet in length. drilled holes were packed with dynamite and plaster. workman excavated over 1.5 million cubic yards of blasted material in 13 months. the tunnels were lined with concrete three feet thick. explosions rocked the canyon daily before placing the concrete and the dam began. acrobatic workman prepared the canyon walls for each blast. suspended on rope

in 1930, president herbert hoover for whom the dam is named signed the appropriation bill to begin constructiona contract awarded in march 1931 to six companies incorporated a combine of six major construction firms, men and machines went to work to build this dam of unprecedented size. this modern civil engineering wonder, reclamation engineers rushed to completion specifications and design drawings. crews at the dam site completed their surveys and investigations. the thunder of man's determination to conquer the colorado resevere berated between the sheer cliffs of black canyon as construction got under way. the first major task was to divert the river around the dam site. to do this four tunnels two on each side were drilled through the canyon walls. each 56 feet in diameter they averaged 4,000 feet in length. drill holes were packed with dynamite and blasted. then trucks entered the tunnels and dumped the rocks. workmen excavated over 1.5 million of material from the four tunnels in 13 months. tunnels then were lined with concrete three feet thick. explosions rocked the canyon almost daily

incumbent president herbert hoover was routed at the polls by franklin delano roosevelt.great nation will endure as it has endured. first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. in his inaugural address roosevelt pledged to establish strong banking safeguards. there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credit and investments. there must be an end to speculation with other people's money. one of roosevelt's first presidential acts was to declare a national bank holiday. merritt sherman, who was with the federal reserve then tells us why roosevelt took this action. what roosevelt was trying to do was to create a period in which the whole banking system individual banks could be reviewed by bank examiners, by experts who had a great deal of information about banks and enable them, through the procedure of licensing banks to reopen, to carry out the promise made by the president that any bank that was reopened would be able to stay open. in his fireside chat fdr told the nation that the reopened banks were safe. let m

republican herbert hoover served as president from 1929 to 1933. remembered most for his time in the oval office at the start of the great depression, hoover also served as the secretary of commerce under presidents harding and coolidge. in this hour-long 1960 nbc interview. hoover discusses his life beyond the presidency. speaking with reporter ray hendly. he delves into topics including his childhood. his time in china during the boxer rebellion and his involvement in supplying food to germans in belgium in world war 1. this program is part of the collections of the stanford university libraries department of special collections and university archives. >> this is the campus of stanford university. one of america's great schools. >> this is the memorial church. this is the memorial theater. >> and this is the library on war, revolution and peace. with your nbc news commentator. i'm meeting a great american and an old friend. i am here to have a talk with the 31st president of the united states, mr. herbert hoover.wwèw >>> sit down, ray. >> thank

one, of course, is to the herbert hoover presidential library and museum for giving me the opportunity to the share th you on this topic a few did ago after i wrote -- research on a book. but also special thanks for the paintings that you will see as part of my presentation are copyrighted by them and they have given me permission to use them in my presentation which therefore allowed this program to be taped by c-span. so my appreciation goes to them. and i want to publicly acknowledge that. then i do want to thank c-span for sending a crew out for taping this and making this program available to a much wider audience. so thank you all so very, very much. dd >> we are interested in what our first ladies wear. there is a quote that says quoit we look at that the first lady wears and all eyes are on her." that if women are able to copy the designs, then they will do so. so we tend to find as our favorite first ladies those first ladies who were wearing fashion that is possibly we can wear ourselves or make us feel request about ourselves. we always look at clothing. it's interesting, bu

. >> of next, the herbert hoover presidential library hosts author and ned dunlap as she explores the evolution of first ladies fashion. she chronicles the impact fashion had on the image of the women living in the white house and what their wardrobe choices reveal about the time in which they lived. this program runs about an hour. >> well, good afternoon and welcome to the herbert hoover presidential library museum. my name is tom schwartz. i'm the director. i'm pleased you've joined us for another program celebrating america's first ladies. in the lobby at the ticket desk, you'll find a card which talk about some of our other upcoming events also dealing with our first lady exhibition. we're honored today to have annette dunlap as our speaker. annette was awarded an m.b.a. from washington university at and has more than 30 years experience as a writer, speaker, an entrepreneurial consultant. in her spare time when she's not raising cattle on a 29-acre farm in north carolina, annette writes books. her first biology was "frank: the story of france it cleveland, america's youngest fir

the land of the free didn't get its national anthem into the less than heralded presidency of herbert hoover >> in balancing central authority against states rights, madison was an able leader in an unpredictable world. congress in 1814, not so much to admire, on the way of leadership. the ever quotable historian henry adams, grandson of john quincy adams, great grandson of quin quincy adams wrote of the year, every ernest patriot in the union and many who are were neither ernest nor patriotic were actively reproaching the house of representatives for its final failure at an parent crisis of the national existence to call out or organize any considerable part of the national energies. the people, however jealous of power, would have liked in imagination, though they would not bear it in practice to be represented by something nobler, wiser and purer than their own average honor, wisdom and purity. and as they required of their religion and infinitely wise and powerful deity, they revolted in their politics from whatever struck them as sordid or selfish. the house reflected their own weakness

money every 12 months from the state legislature so he is happy to be in the federal system with herbert hoover and if you are doing a road trip you have to stop at captain james t. kirk's future birth place. then i get to independence, missouri, and this place is as interested in truman as springfield is in lincoln because he went back there after he was president. so the town is really everywhere you go, truman street, have some truth and coffee and let's go to the truman bar and here is something we won't get in the future, letters. i just ended up reading all of his letters to his wife and they are so touching and you really are able to see a different time and different place. i am very concerned about the future of our presidential scholarship and this is one of the reasons, nobody writes these things anymore. they do a great job at showing both sides of the issue and it is funny. they did this incredible job about discussing truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb and attack some of the things we grew up hearing and the quote eisenhower saying this would have ended soon anyway and othe

the land of the free didn't get its national anthem into the less than heralded presidency of herbert hoover> in balancing central authority against states rights, madison was an able leader in an unpredictable world. congress in 1814, not so much to admire, on the way of leadership. the ever quotable historian henry adams, grandson of john quincy adams, great grandson of quin quincy adams wrote of the year, every ernest patriot in the union and many who are were neither ernest nor patriotic were actively reproaching the house of representatives for its final failure at an parent crisis of the national existence to call out or organize any considerable part of the national energies. the people, however jealous of power, would have liked in imagination, though they would not bear it in practice to be represented by something nobler, wiser and purer than their own average honor, wisdom and purity. and as they required of their religion and infinitely wise and powerful deity, they revolted in their politics from whatever struck them as sordid or selfish. the house reflected their own weaknesses

he got tired of having to beg for money, so he's very happy to be in the federal system with herbert hoover. and, of course, if you're doing a road trip, you have to stop at captain james t. kirk's future birthplace. [laughter] then i get to independence, missouri, and this place is as interested in truman as springfield is in lincoln because he went back there after he was president. so the town is really everywhere you go. turn on truman street and have some truman coffee, and let's go to the truman bar. and here's something we're not going to get in the future, letters. i just ppedded up reading -- ended up reading all of his letters to his wife, bess, and they're so touching. and you really are able to see a different time and a different place. and i'm very concerned about the future of our presidential scholarship, and this is one of the reasons, nobody writes these things anymore. they do a great job at showing both sides of the issue. and the it's funny, though, they do this incredible job about discussing truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb, and they attack some of the many -

consider germany's leader angela merkel the herbert hoover of europe. committed to fiscal discipline even as they plunge back into recession. then contrast her with mario dragi who is combating wit easier money left and right and with today's surprising rate cut. it was incredible. yes, a pledge to buy all sorts of unorthodox bonds to get things moving. you may have heard bad news here. dragi's news makes it harder for the exporters and that was one common refrain. i'm in disagreement. which is why i said that group no longer has as much upside as it did coming into the year. the recklessness of dragi that will come back to haunt us. that resonated all day. sorry. i want to take the other side of the trade here tonight. now, look, every night i always say there's a bull market somewhere. we have been in bull mode for ages and every time it seems to run out of gas, we have run ott of reasons to go higher. something comes along to spur us to more exaltive levels and the savings are headed right here. remember, many of the 742 million people in europe do s

if your great grandfather is herbert hoover you can understand why they would have i have a bias against. john is not a democrat, he's an independent. it didn't change the content of the toasts at our wedding. i think that was probably the most common point reiterated over and over again, that i was marrying outside of the republican party. >> john, was she a hard sell on the home front initially because of her party affiliation? >> oh, god no. not at all. the exact opposite. i mean, my dad was thrilled. >> but your dad is republican. full disclosure. your father is a republican. >> he's very conservative and long standing. it was not an issue in my family at all. and i think the point margaret is making her family comes by it honestly. they may be a leading indicator of the kind of personal hurt feelings that drive partisanship today. i mean, you know, again, it wasn't that i was a democrat. it was that i wasn't a republican and it really was like marrying outside your faith to some extent. there was education involved. there was explaining positions. and, you know, i love that, you kno

in 1930, president herbert hoover for whom the dam is named signed the appropriation bill to begin constructionirms, men and machines went to work to build this dam of unprecedented size. this modern civil engineering wonder, reclamation engineers rushed to completion specifications and design drawings. crews at the dam site completed their surveys and investigations. the thunder of man's determination to conquer the colorado reverberated between the sheer cliffs of black canyon as construction got under way. the first major task was to divert the river around the dam site. to do this four tunnels two on each side were drilled through the canyon walls. each 56 feet in diameter they averaged 4,000 feet in length. drill holes were packed with dynamite and blasted. after each explosion, shovels and trucks entered the tunnels, mucked off the shattered rock and dumped it nearby gulches. workmen excavated over 1.5 million cubic yards of blasted rock material from the four tunnels in 13 months. tunnels then were lined with concrete three feet thick. explosions rocked the canyon almost daily for almost

>> loring bigelow: i want to say herbert hoover. ( laughs ) i can't think of it. >> could not rememberconsensus here was likely alzheimer's, which presumes a brain with plaques and tangles. >> kawas: are we ready to hear the truth? >> stahl: only then do they open up dr. kim's report. >> plaques, zero. so, no plaques. >> oh, okay. ah. >> kawas: wow! >> no plaques. no cortical tangles anywhere. >> kawas: pretty amazing. >> stahl: what's amazing is they're finding that 40% of the time in people over 90, what doctors would think is alzheimer's isn't. in loring bigelow's brain, dr. kim found something else, something the 90-plus study is finding quite a bit-- evidence of tiny, microscopic strokes called micro-infarcts. his brain was full of them. >> kim: here is a micro-infarct. it's the hole... >> stahl: oh, right here. >> kim: ...which is basically a tiny stroke. >> kawas: so you've got all this tissue is missing. >> kim: if you find one, it suggests that you should probably look for others. and some patients may have hundreds or thousands of them. >> stahl: these microscopic strokes are

herbert hoover made $59,000. they said, how do you feel, you're making more than the president?e said, i had a better year than the president. but like the mega salaries today. it's just -- doesn't even equate. but robinson gets the credit. and one of the interesting things in my conversation with sharon robinson, i didn't even get to finish the question. i started to ask her, i said, do you think, looking at your father's life, that the integration of baseball -- and she just cut me off. she said, yes, i think the integration of baseball cost him his life. i think it tore away at him. and so forth. he developed the diabetes, all the stress, she said, because he kept it inward. you know, he died at age -- age 53. she was convinced it was the stress of all of it. it had to be really rough. the moving "42" doesn't come close to the reality of it. we have a question there in the back. >> did satchel paige keep up his flashy show even when he got to the major leagues? did he have to keep that tame? >> exactly right. no. he didn't keep up his flashy show in the major leagues. the onl

in about an hour, nbc's "a conversation with herbert hoover."ood and life beyond the presidency, his time in china during the boxer rebellion and his involvement supplying food to civilians in german occupied belgium in world war i. also, a u.s. army film captures captain william johnston. >>> 200 years ago, british soldiers invaded washington, d.c. and burned down the white house and the u.s. capitol. while president james madison and first lady dolly madison fled the city. this week, live coverage of a two-day forum marking the burning of washington. all starting tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern. and day two of the conference on the war of 1812 also live thursday here on american history tv. the white house historical association and the u.s. capitol historical society starting at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. >> each week, american history tv's reel america brings you films to help tell the story of the 21st century. 45 years ago on july 20, 1969 as millions around the world watched on live television, neil armstrong became the first person to set foo

. >> this is ringing germany saying, germany, you want to be herbert hoover and care at this time about balanced budget? well, to heck with you. i'm roosevelt. you can't do this to the economy. >> there was discussion that merkel was beginning to blipg or show signs of blinking. >> she's not blinking anywhere. the hold on europe that merkel has is going to come into question because draghi is a brave man. i think this is really brave to take on the principle country and principle driver of a country that, frankly, has had the run of the joint with the euro, and he's trying to end that. people say, listen, how will he get out? they had minus 5% deflation. the reason i focus on fdr and not bernanke, we had that level of deflation. the country he's trying to ring against had that deflation ahead of the third reich. he sees it. it's not stopping. >> trying to use a lower euro, frankly, to be the mechanism to get growth and avoid deflation. >> this nost economic expansion. you need some demand. >> got to get banks to lend. they'll be paying the ecb to hold their money. question is are they w

the land of the free didn't get its national anthem into the less than heralded presidency of herbert hoover. >> in balancing central authority against states rights, madison was an able leader in an unpredictable world. congress in 1814 not so much to admire, on the way of leadership. the ever quotable historian henry adams, grandson of john quincy adams great grandson of quincy quincy adams wrote of the year, every ernest patriot in the union and many who are were neither ernest nor patriotic were actively reproaching the house of representatives for its final failure at an parent crisis of the national existence to call out or organize any considerable part of the national energies. the people however jealous of power, would have liked in imagination, though they would not bear it in practice to be represented by something nobler, wiser and purer than their own average honor, wisdom and purity. and as they required of their religion and infinitely wise and powerful deity they revolted in their politics from whatever struck them as sordid or selfish. the house reflected their own weaknesse