herbert hoover was almost pathetically grateful. only two months after the election calvin coolidge died suddenly. hoover was shocked and attended his funeral in north hampton. perhaps partly in gratitude for coolidge's contribution to the republican campaign in 1932 when his health was slipping. hoover in the years to come tended to suppress the depth and detail of their past differences. to one correspondent in 1934 he even denied there had ever been friction between coolidge and himself. the acute underlying that they came to feel about each other was lacking in hoover's later r reminis reminisce. personal factors may have contributed to his self-restraint. during the 1920s, coolidge's wife grace and hoover's wife lou had become dear friends who corresponded for years. they eventually had nicknames for each other in the letters they exchanged. mrs. coolidge was known as lily or sometimes easter lily. mrs. hoover was bleeding heart. this i believe derived from their custom starting of 1928 of exchanges those plants on easter sunday

herbert hoover would die shortly before noon on october 20th, 1964. harry truman would telegram hoover's sons that day expressing his deep sadness and how he wasn't able to come to the funeral due to a recent injury. later, in june of 1965, truman would publish this eulogy as a preface to herbert hoover's last book, "challenge to america his life and words." this is what truman would say of their friendship. my warmth and close friendship with herbert hoover dates back to the day he visited washington shortly after i succeeded to the presidency. i was moved to move him back to public service in the hope he might resume the task again of feeding the hungry in the wake of the frightful devastation visited on so many human beings in many parts of the world. i wanted to help restore as quickly as possible friend and foe alike to their normal lives and to peaceful pursuits. president hoover did not hesitate, nor did he weigh the matter of personal convenience or even hardship. he accepted at once. the meeting between him and me at the white house is now his

quote, i wish to pay my special tribute to herbert hoover. i'm always proud to honor those who have been recognized by their fellow men as great men. great americans. as great humans. among these, hoover stands in the first score. his great human qualities are known throughout the world. so long as the english language is spoken. so long as there's a nation, we will remember hoover with the greatest gratitude. so what are we to make of the partnership? the available documents show frustration, collaboration, and closure on a life of public service. that hoover had high hopes for his work with the first republican president in two decades is without question. that he was disappointed with the pace of the collaboration is also evident. perhaps the former president had too high expectation for the eisenhower years. we will never know. what is not in doubt is that through his multiple contributions to the truman and eisenhower administration he made a difference in the shape of the executive power in washington. for that all of us can acknowledge

the title of the talk today is rising star, herbert hoover and the wilson administration 1914 to 1920. please welcome ross kennedy. >> thanks very much. tom. for that introduction. and thanks to the hoover library and foundation for organizing this conference. just walking around the museum before coming up here, it's really impressive. if you get chance to, you should go and look at exhibits. they're great. so i have the first president that hoover was involved with. i think woodrow wilson was the most important that hoover had a relationship with. because without wilsons patronage. it was because of woodrow wilson that hoover went from being a relatively unknown mining engineer in 1914, to just six years later being a serious candy at a time for the presidency. in my talk i want to lay out the main reasons why hoover advanced so quickly during the wilson administration. i'll argue it had to do with his administrative ability. political skills and ideology affinity with wilson. lastly i'll talk on why the two men had falling out in 1920. probably the most fundamental reason for hoove

from the herbert hoover presidential library this is 45 minutes. >>> ross kennedy

he talks about herbert hoover's relationship with woodrow wilson until their falling out in 1920. from the herbert hoover presidential library this is 45 minutes. >>> ross kennedy is professor of history. woodrow wilson and world war i having written the will to believe woodrow wilson and america's strategy for peace and security. kennedy is also editor of a companion to woodrow wilson. please welcome ross kennedy. >> thanks very much for that introduction. thanks to the hoover library for organizing this conference. just walking around the museum before it is impressive. if you get a chance you should go and look at the exhibits because they are great. it was because of wilson that he went from being a relatively unknown mining engineer to just six years later to being a serious for the presidency. i want to lay out the main reasons why hoover advanced so quickly during the administration. i will argue what had to do with his administrative ability, his political skills and affinity with wilson. i'll talk on why the two men had a falling out. probably the most fundamental reason

president's locomotive or the president's train because it held special passenger cars for coolidge, herbert hoover, franklin d. roosevelt, dwight eisenhower, and even have special trip for my special excursion train for winston churchill in 1941 when he was visiting canada and the u.s. both20 was able to handle breaks and passenger service, which was not typical of alstyne all votives -- of steam locomotives, but that meant it happy hook up. that is why it was also used for special exclusions, for the s, again, theour presidents who used to come in -- who usedility it, it had the ca capability. our cities tour staff recently traveled to burlington, vermont to learn about its rich history. burlington another south on our tour at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv on c-span3. >> he walked into the room, and he was where military camouflage with the blood drop in one right here and the initials kkk right here on his chest. beret onred across the his head was "knights of the ku klux klan. he had a semiautomatic handgun in a holster. followed right behind him, mr. kelly, the gr

locomotive or the president's train because it helped pull special passenger cars for calvin coolidge, herbert hoover, franklin d. roosevelt, dwight eisenhower, and even had special trip for my -- a special excursion train for winston churchill in 1941 when he was visiting canada and the u.s. the 220 was able to handle both freight and passenger service, which was not typical of all steam locomotives, but that meant it had the hook up. that is why it was also used for special excursions for the presidents' tours, again, the presidents who used it, it had the capability. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to burlington, vermont to learn about its rich history. learn about burlington and other stops on our tour at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv on c-span3. >> as he walked into the room first, he was wearing military camouflage fatigues with the blood dropped emblem right here. chestitial kkk on his embroidered across his beret were nights of the ku klux klan. he had a semi automatic handgun in a holster. he came in, followed by mr. kelly, the grand dragon in a suit

president's locomotive or the president's train because it held special passenger cars for coolidge, herbert hoover, franklin d. roosevelt, dwight eisenhower, and even have had a special trip as an excursion train for winston churchill in 1941 when he was visiting canada and the u.s. the 220 was able to handle both breaks and passenger service, which is not typical of locomotives of all steam , locomotives, but that meant it had a special hook up. that is why it was also used for special exclusions, for the presidents' tours, again, the presidents who used to come in and use it, and it had that special capability on the track. staff cities tour recently traveled to burlington, vermont to learn about its rich history. learn more about burlington and other stops at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. this weekend on the presidency, joe weekend gives life to theodore roosevelt in a portrayal before the lincoln group in the district of columbia. he requests -- he recounts his life and times, including his ascension to the white house after

locomotive or the president's train because it helped pull special passenger cars for calvin coolidge, herbert hoover, franklin d. roosevelt, dwight eisenhower, and even had special trip for my -- pulling a special excursion train for winston churchill in 1941 when he was visiting canada and the u.s. the 220 was able to handle both freight and passenger service, which was not typical of all steam locomotives, but that meant that it had a hook up for the passenger car to provide steam and he to the passenger car as well. that is why it was also used for special excursions for the .residents' tours it had that special capability of poking up and hauling >> our on the tracks. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to burlington, vermont to learn about its rich , history. learn about burlington and other stops on our tour at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. , he talks about his book on the rise of addictive technology in the business of keeping us hooked. >> they say we know the dangers of technology and they do not say things like we

which was founded by herbert hoover in 1919. as a matter of fact. you should know that the presidents essay written by a dr. at the heritage foundation will be on mr. hoover. this will be on another month or so. i've been helping do some of the research in learning so much about herbert hoover who was a most honorable man. but unfortunately, was saddled with the idea that he was personally responsible somehow for the great depression. that is not the case. >> ladies and gentlemen, when i tried to do with this book is to look back particularly at some of the things i've written and some of the people who might now and if you think about it, that really were giants. conservative giants who walked the earth in the last half of the 19th cent for the 20th century. those giants were in my opinion, ronald reagan, barry goldwater and bill buckley. and as a matter fact, i wrote biographies of all three of them. studied them and so trying to sum up what do they have in common. they were charismatic leaders who could inspire an audience to action. they believe

now the american relief administration under herbert hoover is feeding 10 million russians. ♪ james:rch 1923, lenin suffers a stroke. the following january, he is dead. ♪ james: stalin and the others force trotsky into exile, then stalin begins a new economic policy. in its place, three successive five-year plans that emphasize productive capacity, including heavy industry and power output. ♪ from 1928 to 1941, capacity rises 300%. hydroelectric output is up 80%. agricultural production lags and housing as well. if you are an average russian, this means more work, less to eat and less living space for family. if you don't work hard enough or if you complain, there are plenty of trains to siberia where many hydroelectric dams are being built. on the other hand, if you work hard, you might become a [indiscernible] all you have to do do is break the production record of a machine and get a medal and small wage increase. that is better than a quick trip to the reindeer country. the years of the great executions. how many people are permanently removed from circulation, nobody knows. the

passenger cars for calvin coolidge, herbert hoover, franklin d. roosevelt, dwight eisenhower, it even had a -- pulling for winston churchill when he was visiting from canada to the united states. passengerh and service. which was not common for steam locomotives, which means it had a hook up for steam heat in the passenger car. that is why was also used for presidentsursions, worse. it had a capability of hooking up to a special passenger car or private rep car and holding it on the track. announcer: our cities for staff recently traveled to burlington, vermont, to learn about its rich history. learn more at c-span.org cities tour. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. proximity five years gone november 8, 1940 two, british and american forces launched operation torch, the invasion of north africa then occupied i germany. next on "reel america", tunisian victory, world war ii propaganda film on the north african film will produce id british and u.s. governments and released in early 1944. teens,umentary uses, a

. >> gerald norford, jimmy carter >> the herbert hoover interview was some of the best. >> did you see any of that cake? >> i haven't seen it. >> i've seen a picture of the cake. >> i have to say, i may tell people to look for something that they need to see in the show. tom brokaw has a very special tie that he's wearing. i tweeted it, so you can look at it closely. but it's very cool. tip of the hat to as he put it two pounding father he is of "meet the press." our good late friend tim russert is one of them. >> exactly. chuck, congratulations on the big anniversary and reminder that you can see "meet the press" comes up every sunday at 10:30 right here on nbc 4. >>> and now to the weather. you're not bringing a very sunny disposition. >> i'm bringing the fogs and clouds. >> will it clear out? >> io no, we will -- it's been hanging on a lot longer than i originally thought. so i had to lower temperatures which i don't like do often. but we will start to get a south wind that brings moisture off the atlantic and the rain malaysia night. but again we'll start to see the temperatures pu

including calvin coolidge. >> up next, herbert hoover scholar talks about the president and his oval office predecessor calvin coolidge.

communism and anti-communism, the place to go is the hoover institution which was founded by herbert hoover in 1919 as a matter of fact you should know the president's essay is going to be on mr. hoover out in a month or so, so i've been out doing some of the research but unfortunately he was saddled with the idea that he was personally responsible somehow for the great depressioput the t that isn't the case. what i tried to do with this book is a if you think about it there are conservative chileans who walked the earth in the last half of the 20th century. they were in my opinion ronald reagan, berry goldwater and bill buckley. as a matter of fact i wrote biographies of all three of them and so trying to sum up what do they have in common they were charismatic leaders that believe the free enterprise could bring morein prosperity to more people than any other economic system. they look to a transcendent being for guidance and inspiration. they were practicing men of faith and they use the constitution as the northstar. it wasn't just something they did on their own. if i were to ask the a

also at 8:00 onto century, a look at the political partnership between presidents herbert hoover and calvin coolidge. the c-span buses traveling across the country on our city's capital tour. we recently stopped in austin, texas to ask what their most important issue is. hoping that- was taxes would get rid of occupational -- tax reform. >> i think one of the most important issues, possibly one of the most important issues is transparency in government. think our leaders could do enough to be more , but also the kinds of records that are used in government and that the citizens istexas deserve to know what going on in washington. >> the most important issue is educational choice and hopefully we get a bill passed next session. >> voices from state on c-span. tonight on the communicators, adam alter talks about his book irresistible. ofwe know the dangers technology. >> that is the sense you get. basically never get high on your own -- >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. tonight on c-span, former secretary of state madeleine albright and condoleezza rice

herbert hoover came out of retirement and wrote the civil service act. david: right. mr. a lot of good things. and i feel, you know, that george and i have been blessed because we were reasonably young. barack obama is young. you can be double lucky. you can serve eight years as president and do good things. david: john kennedy was once asked at a press conference, what do you think about this job and would you recommend it? he said not to others right now, so i can finish my tenure. would you say it is worth the aggravation factor to become president, or would you recommend they pursue something else? mr. clinton: in a heartbeat. [applause] david: the highest calling of mankind i always thought was private equity. but you would say that -- [laughter] david: you say being president of the united states is better than equity? mr. clinton: i don't know. mr. bush: we make $200,000 a year in pension. what do you make? [laughter] david: money isn't everything. but yes. [laughter] mr. clinton: if we could say one serious thing, there are a lot of really big questions floating o

plan, they went to the white house and celebrated like it was mardi gras, the super bowl, and herbert hoover's birthday open together. when millions of middle-class americans got together and defeated the bill, donald trump said they voted for a mean bill. he was right, and lack lambs to the slaughter, they will vote for another mean bill, a tax stamp written by corporate lobbyists in the dark of night now moving through congress with the speed of light. while our poor colleagues really walk the plank for the billionaires and wall street tycoons and the trump's cabinet getting ready to laugh to be back when middle-class americans rebel this week and next week and the week after that, and this tax stamp buys the dust, president trump can turn around and call this monstrosity not only mean the greedy. this mean and greedy tax scam puts 1.5 training dollars on america's credit cards so the sons and daughters of the middle-class tempe the rest of their lives for a gigantic corporate tax cut in a time of record corporate profits. one third of the windfall raining down on corporate investors will go

as someone pointed out, herbert hoover's base stuck with him in the 1932 election. i think the question is the margins of his base. so the republican senators that have to face their own voters in the 2018 election who are not as gung-ho for cutting big corporate taxes and getting rid of the estate tax. when they look at the plan, which most of the iteration so far have at least a large number of identifiable middle class people whose taxes are going to go up because of the deductions they get rid of. i think there's going to be hell to pay. i mean, they're going to light it on fire. >> president trump's base, george, are also not republicans. there were republicans who for years and years have cared about the deficit. are we now just going to throw that out the window and say that doesn't matter to the gop? >> they're not republicans and they barely pay taxes. top 1% of american earners pay 39% of the income tax. top 5% pay 60%. top 10% pay 70% of the income taxes. the bottom 50% of american taxpayers pay 3% of the income tax. that's why you can't cut taxes, at lea

eventually the way was opened by herbert hoover, wartime food administrator and then chairman of the american relief administration. hoover invited private agencies, quakers, lutherans, jews, and others to cooperate and provide relief in different areas where people were suffering in russia. during the postwar famine and particularly 1922 and 1923, men -- mennonite central committee -- $1,300,000ion and fed 75,000 people in russia, including people in the areas of greatest mennonite settlement. we didn't just go to give food to mennonites. in fact, the relief administration required that we help everybody in need in these particular areas. mennonite central committee declined in the late 1920's and the 1930's but flourished during and after world war ii. in subsequent decades, their relief and development programs have expanded remarkably throughout the world. mennonite benevolent giving on a per capita basis has outranked that of most other religious or secular groups. part of this dynamic, of course, has been the effort of a relatively small protestant denomination, itself a cultur

he always said i couldn't write a biography of herbert hoover or jefferson davis. but sometimes when there is an animus there is a certain amount of, you know, prejudice involved. i mean, read bill marvels wonderful biography of stanton, which he hates the man on every page. but bill does the research. and sears does the research. steven sears' research is excellent. and sears' newest volume is even more hostile to mcclellin in some ways than the biography. he's gotten more hostile over the years, not -- not less. ethan ray fuse -- read sears and ray fuse together. they're the best. and read some of mark grimmsly's articles, too. because mark is not uncritical of mcclellin, but he's more sympathic, as well. >> thank you. >> there's a famous incident after the seven days battle where mcclellin sends a telegraph i guess to the war department and basically says that in this administration, he's responsible for the defeat of his army. but takes out -- [ inaudible ] if he hadn't taken those sentences out, would he have been sacked? >> would mcclellin have been sacked at

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vermont railway and was also often turned as the president's train because it helped pull special , herbert hoover, franklin d. roosevelt, dwight eisenhower, and even had a special trip pulling a special excursion train to winston churchill he was visiting canada . the220 was able to handle passenger service, not typical of all locomotives. that mean it had a hookup for the passenger car to provide steam and steam heat to the passenger car as well. that is why it was used for special excursions, for the different presidents. you have the capability of hooking up to a private railcar and hauling it on the track. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to burlington, vermont, to learn more about it. at c-span.org. you're watching american history tv a week and every weekend on c-span3. >> american history tv is on c-span3 every weekend, featuring museum tours, archival films, and programs on the presidency, the civil war, and more. here is a clip from a recent program. i am aame is janet and museum technician. i work specifically for the vietnam's veterans memorial collection here at the museum r

tonight former president herbert hoover and his relationships with other presidents. american history tv prime time begins at 8:00 eastern on see pan3. tonight on c-span2, it's book tv, in prime time. our focus will be science. first, scientist kelly winersmith and car on ittist zach winer-smith on their book "soonish" and microsoft ceo satya nadella talks about the reinvention of microsoft in his book "hit refresh." after that, it's software engineer ellen ulman on her book "life in code" and later, massachusetts institute of technology physics professor max tegmar examines the concept of artificial intelligence in his book "life 3.0." it's book tv all this week in prime time on c-span2. >>> coming up tonight on c-span former secretaries of state madeleine albright and condoleezza rice are joined by ambassador nikki haley. the pam was part of a forum on freedom and security and includes opening remarks by first lady laura bush. here is a brief look. >> and i think we have to recognize that we are dealing with a president of a country, of russia, who is a kgb agent, a

tonight we'll look at former president herbert hoover and his relationships with other presidents. american history tv prime time begins at 8:00 eastern here on c-span 3. in the meantime tonight on c-span 2, it's book tv in prime time. our focus will be science. first, scientists kelly we weinersmith and cartoonist zach weinersmith. then satya nadella talks about the reinvention of microsoft in his book "hit refresh." then ellen ullman on her book life in code. later massachusetts institute of technology physics professor max tegmark examines the context of artificial intelligence in his book "life 3.0." that's all this week in prime time on c-span 2. coming up tonight on c-span, former sake tears of state madeleine albright and condoleezza rice are joined by u.n. ambassador nikki haley in an event hosted by the george w. bush institute in new york. the panel was part of a forum on freedom and security and includes opening remarks by former first lady laura bush. here's a brief look. >> we have to realize we are dealing with the president of russia who is a kgb about and they know

when a former president -- when the former presidents act was passed, herbert hoover and harry truman were the only two living presidents. unlike the other presidents, they did not earn millions of dollars from speaking fees and book deals after leaving office. for example, president clinton earned more than $100 million in speaking fees between 2001 and 2013. president george w. bush received $10 million for his book deal. in april, 2017, president obama spoke at a wall street firm for a fee of $400,000, and he and former first lady also reportedly signed a joint book deal worth over $65 million. it is a fact that the modern presidency that these lucrative financial opportunities are available now as they were not to former presidents. because of these opportunities, it's no longer necessary to provide taxpayer-funded support to former presidents in the same way as envisioned in 1958. h.r. 3739 presents a fairer way to reduce taxpayer support to those former presidents who no longer need such assistance. furthermore, with our nation facing $20 trillion in debt, we must find ways to s

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tonight we we'll look at president herbert hoover and his relationship to other presidents. >>> in the meantime time on cspan 2, it's book tv on prime time. our focus will be science, first kelly wiener smith on their book soonish. then microsoft ceo talks about the reinvention of microsoft, in his book, hit refresh. aft and matter massachusetts institute of technology physics professor talks about the concept of artificial intelligence, in his book "life 3.0". and then coming up tonight on cspan, former secretaries of state states condoleezza rice, madeleine albright, laura bush and nikki haley. it includes opening remarks by first lady laura bush. here's a brief look. >> and i think we have to recognize that we are dealing with a president of a country of russia who is a kgb agent and they know how to do propaganda. and what they're doing is using information in a way to undermine the system, democracy, what they want to do is undermine the democracies in europe and separate us from europe and i do believe that they have figured out how to make our life more complicated in every sing

republicans were harding, coolidge, herbert hoover, eisenhower, virtually all republicans up through including george w. bush. i have not evaluated trump yet because it is too early. host: you put them into categories. guest: based on proto-libertarian, or the .overnment talk like reagan the libertarians were more like coolidge, etc.in host: moderately progressive. , and richard ford nixon was the last progressive president before barack obama. it is not really go with what you think with the parties. host: you mentioned george w. bush also in that category. out about theind actual policies versus legacy? conservatives fondly remember reagan but he increased the size of the government as a percentage of gdp. any in worldest of war ii. got too big in six .ut of his eight years he raised taxes 11 times in six years. he would do this in very obscure parts of the tax code. he was more pro-government programs in certain areas than is commonly remembered. host: reaganomics? guest: he did cut taxes but he did not cut taxes. we have atlloons, also was george w. bush. passes, taxes are easy t

nash is the foremost authority on the life and times of herbert hoover. receiving the ph.d. in history from harvard university, nash's dissertation, the conservative intellectual movement in american since 1945 was quickly published and remains a study on this topic. on the recommendation of buckley, the hoover presidential library association now the hoover presidential foundation contracted with dr. nash to write a multivolume biography of herbert hoover. the three volumes that resulted in the life of herbert hoover, the engineer, the humanitarian and master of emergencies remains the most thorough treatment of hoover's life from birth to the end of his work in wilson administration as head of the food administration. he expertly edited the unpublished writings, freedom betrayed, the history of the second world war and it's aftermath. herbert hoover's lost memoir of the new deal era and it's aftermath. as one of our ark viss described, george, he's someone who will forget more than i will ever know about herbert hoover. dr. nash is currently working on a study of herbert ho