i kept thinking herbert hoover, the post-presidency. i didn't really have a strong sense of how hoover related to or how the people who worked under him related to him. reading the records, reading the private letters, the diaries of the americans who served, you get a sense of their ferocious feeling of loyalty toward hoover. they would follow him into any battle, right? hoover -- it is a word i have used before, and people say, you must be talking about somebody else, but hoover had a quiet charisma, which, for most americans, has been obliterated by the great depression and what comes afterwards. but hoover, a man of few words, really kind of exerted that kind that magneticrted pull on the men who served under him. i don't think we said his nickname. he was known as "the chief." they referred to hoover in their letters as "the chief." the men of the a.r.a., generally speaking, saw themselves as practical idealists in the hoover mode. they were fixers, engineer administrators who prided themselves on an efficient and hardheaded dispens

in need than herbert hoover. his major humanitarian efforts span a half-century, so this conference offers a foretaste of a much broader topic. we are particularly grateful for to c-span for recording this conference for later broadcast. the hoover presidential foundation provided financial support for the conference and all of today's events at the library and museum. their ongoing support makes possible all the exhibits, education programs and other -- and public programs we offer. i hope you will pick up a membership brochure in the lobby and consider joining if you're not already a member. please take time to enjoy our temporary exhibit, collaborating collectors. this exhibit highlights the vast collecting activities of herbert hoover over the course of their lives and global travels. i hope you will join us after conference to a reception where we can meet and chat with the speakers. we are fortunate to have many of herbert and lou hoover's descendents with us today would members of the hoover family please

herbert hoover was able to change public opinion.e came up with slogans as he had during the war, such as food would win the war. such as i do not have any german enemies under the age of six. we have never been at war with women and children. this helps, using children was a way to help people who had, for many good reasons had held a lot of animosity toward germany, putting it in the eyes of children, people were then able and more willing to dig into their pockets and donate. he faced a lot of political pressure in the u.s. and abroad. but he was able to get it through. here's another image. this is a picture that represents the children of tomorrow. i can't quite read it. you see a wolf that represent hunger, and winter is laughing in the background. he is also labeled. [laughter] across the ocean is uncle sam it with food supplies and to him is herbert hoover tugging at uncle to sam's shoulder pointing towards europe. as a way to save, we need to feed the europeans. this image was published in november 1918. there's this idea th

so herbert hoover. george did a great job discussing the institutions. , especiallytates after we joined the war but also before was able to increase agricultural production many fold. too lily wheat and pork. sold a lot of food to our allies. allowed the armies to continue fighting. the slogan, food will when the war is something uber -- hoover made popular. he also instigated meatless days and certain days we can only eat certain things. this is all geared at increasing the supply of food that could be shipped to europe. when the war ended, we had a surplus. i cannot say we because you quit french listening to this. -- you could be french listening to this. [laughter] when the war ended we had a surplus of food that needed to be sold or given away. of this, this is something i found in birmingham. this is not herbert hoover but the idea of charity is spread throughout. it was important because there were different ideas in terms of who should get a first. especially following the war, there were lots

as part of that story, i'll be disgusting herbert hoover and some of the things he did to alleviate the suffrage in germany which had been a big enemy and ally of the united states. for me, one of the things i enjoyed so much of my research is seeing his compassion for people that were very unpopular and were ready to encourage others to feel that same compassion and safe ability in life. here's the book i'm, going to start by telling you about something about the british blockade. right when the war started the british government started the introduction of goods and they have a strict legal meaning but this blockade and in many things between that included food and also fertilizer. since then, over the past century the scholars have discussed this and they say a blockade had no impact whatsoever and other scholars who argue that it had a huge impact on germany and what i did was wanted to ask a question about what was the administration like in germany and this debate that's gone on began much earlier so this is a little uncomfortable starting with this propaganda for the crown of kin

good afternoon and welcome to the herbert hoover museum, i'm time shorts the director and we will hear for presentations on herbert hovers various humanitarian effort. we are in the midst of centennial observance says of hovers food relief efforts, beginning in 2014 with the commission for relief and belgium. 2019 with the american relief administration efforts and, ironically, the effort that date his presidency affect the lives of more people than has for years as president. perhaps no one in history, other than norman or lock provided food for so many food in neat and herbert over. it's major humanitarian efforts share a have country., we are grateful to seaspan. the hoover foundation provided support, their ongoing support makes possible all the exhibits, education programs and public programs that we offer. i hope you will pick up a membership and consider journey if you are not already. please take time to enjoy our temporary exhibit and the exhibit highlights the abilities over the course of their lives and global travels, i also hope we will meet and chat with speakers. we are

they want to express their thanks to herbert hoover. at least in the family level, the people he fed, there is remembrance, but has world war ii clouded our understanding of the importance of world war i? >> yes. i th inhink it does. the shadow of world war i hovers over world war ii in all of its decisions, but world war i did not cause world war ii. it is the failure of the politicians in the 1920's and 1930's to deal with problems created by world war i that caused world war ii. i also think we need to be careful about photography and careful about interviewing people. i have interviewed a lot of veterans. the difficulty is they have all hung out at clubs, they have all traded stories, they have read all kinds of books, and lots of that gets perfected to their memory. with photographs, you have to be careful of the frame. what is outside the frame and what was the intent? you can see the posters we showed today are clearly propaganda posters, propaganda photographs to elicit certain kinds of emotional responses from you to give money

announcer: next on "the presidency," stanford university historian bertrand patenaude talks about herbert hoover aid to famine stricken soviet russia. this program at the hoover presidential library in west branch, iowa, was part of a daylong conference of his humanitarian work. it picks up right after a break. it was mr. hoover's global efforts that propelled him toward a run for the white house. some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. mr. patenaude: welcome to the second half of our event. i am going to mosey in on the beginning of my own presentation so people can head in from the break. [laughter] let me just say it is a great pleasure to be invited here, to be part of this event. and it is a distinct pleasure to be surrounded by so many hoovers. i have never seen so many hoovers in one place.

herbert herbert hoover is the first one to be moved.ans he wore and president trump was cleared in 2007 and then jered in 2008. >> the president of the united states. tim naftali is a presidential historian. amy bass. welcome to both of you. out of the gate, what did you hear when you heard the boos and a chants of "lock him up." >> it was a rare moment that we've seen a crowd that the president hasn't vetted to react to him. people were brought together to watch a baseball game and it helped people shed identities that might keep them apart and they had something they were unified about last night and they used constitutional rights to express that. >> chris coons actually said this -- >> i have a hard time with the idea of a crowd on a globally televised sporting event chanting "lock him up" about our president. i frankly think the office of the president deserves respects even when the actions of our president at times don't. i certainly hope that we won't hear lock him up chants at democratic rallies or at our convention. >> does he

and that was the mining engineer herbert hoover. and herbert hoover probably spent less time in the united states than any president before or since. he was always involved in great projects in the world. he was orphaned at the age of nine, but was sent -- from iowa, but was sent to live with an uncle in california. and the uncle sent him to stanford diversity. -- university. and he really became a self-made millionaire. he was in his 20's when he was a millionaire. he had no political history except for one. he ran for treasurer as a college student from stanford university, but he was secretary of commerce, and he had done a great deal. president wilson had sent him to europe when world war i began, and his job was to get the american tourists out of europe. he did that, then he helped the belgians. belgium was overrun and he was -- overrun in the first world war and he was responsible for belgium relief. when he came back to the united states, during the war, he was the food administrator. his job was to see that the military got

and the purpose of this library is to promote peace and have freedom among men.. 100 years ago herbert hoover was a part of the paris peace talks and was offering 50,000 dollars which in today's world is almost about 1 million dollars and collected material and mr. hoover at a food relief to belgium for something called the relief fund and the american relief administration which was during world war one after world war one and the weapons of those administrations would be had the collections be around and was the genesis which was still continuing dynamically and prosperity and the safeguards. >> the hoover institution has 100 volumes of the 6000 collections and other policy related topics in the 24 centuries. their experts chose across section of artifacts. >> here we have two items and this book (inaudible) which means secret in german is prepared for the invasion and they listed the names of 2000 people who had their addresses and what they did and they were just listed as jew and in this case freud was listed as someone who has arrested so they had a very systematic plan for arresting pe

on august 10, 1914, herbert hoover turned 40 years old. a highly successful american mining engineer living in london, he had been planning for several years to return home to california, where he hopes to enter what he called the big game of public service. this orphan son of quaker pioneers had come for from his humble beginnings in a tiny village in the state of iowa. he rose rapidly in his chosen profession of mining engineering after graduating from stanford university. in 1914, he directed and part controlled an array of mining enterprises that employed 100,000 men. having achieved his early ambition of earning a fortune by the age of 40, he told a friend that just making money is not enough. he wanted to do something more. his opportunity arose in circumstances he could have never imagined. just a few days before his 40th birthday, most of europe plunged into the greatest armed conflict in 100 years. as great britain declared war on imperial germany, hoover wrote to a friend, "if my judgment of the situation is right, we are on the

just after the war started, franklin roosevelt approached herbert hoover and suggested that he come to talk about a new agency that might be more like war food administrator in world war i and give advice to the american red cross. there is a series of letters between roosevelt and hoover, indirectly, through myron taylor and through norman davis, the head of the red cross. i said in my first book that i thought hoover might have missed his chance to participate in the roosevelt administration and be useful in world war ii. my later research, i think this never would have been a possibility. the animus that was felt between the two, that hoover had for the last three or four years, attacked everything roosevelt. one of the people in the roosevelt administration said to the president when they were considering -- the question is, whether you want him inside the tent out. he was an empire builder and he would want things his own way. on the other hand, why would roosevelt ask him? elinor -- eleanor asked him to do it. hoover said no. in the mineral -- the middle of this process, norman d

welcome to the herbert hoover presidential library museum.ne of 14 operated by the national archives and records of administration. i am tom schwartz, the director. we are about to hear four very thoughtful and stimulating presentations on herbert hoover's various humanitarian efforts. we are in the midst of centennial observances of his many food relief efforts beginning in 2014 with the commission for relief in belgium, 2019, with the american relief administration efforts,

he defeated reporting and herbert hoover by 7 million votes. >> let me assert my firm belief that thething we have to fear is fear itself. bret: trouble was brewing abroad. it streamed nationalism was on the rise in japan and it all hitler was well on his way to seizing power in germany. in 1938 he was on the move in austria and occupying czechoslovakia. the next year he invaded poland. it's appeasement of hitler having failed great britain to winston churchill to lead them. >> you ask what is our and? i can only say one word. victory. victory at all costs. victory in spite of all terror. victory of a long and hard road though it may be. we will have victory and without victory there is no survival. bret: eight years older than fdr churchill had also been born into a family of wealth and privilege. >> he was a young man in a hurry. he was born several weeks early and from that moment on seem to be racing through life. bret: he attended military college 14 keeper in the sudan and served as a correspondent in the boer war. he was first elected to parliament at 26 and served in a series

kennedy and herbert hoover donated their pay as well. no matter what a lot of people are saying about the airport in miami, it's 15th on the list. tomorrow may bring fresh hell for this administration as the ceasefire expires and now nothing will hold turkish forces back. as u.s. troops were pulling out of northern syria, civilians in kurdish areas there hurled vegetables and insults. they're angry that their fighting partners, the americans, are leaving them. at the white house, trump had this response to the kurds. >> where is an agreement that said we have to stay in the middle east for the rest of humanity, for the rest of civilization to protect the kurds? they're no angels. but we helped the kurds, and we never gave the kurds a commitment that we'd stay for the next 400 years to protect them. >> tonight "the washington post" is reporting that a limited number of troops will indeed remain in syria to secure the oil as the president puts it. and this afternoon secretary of state pompeo seemed to indicate -- get this -- the president

herbert hoover who was providing over roaring market. he came into office in 1928. things were swimmingly two years later. he would not survive in the next election. someone who was considered laughable shot rising to the white house, you might remember the name. franklin roosevelt, big government spending liberal, who many said who would have no chance taking 1600 pennsylvania avenue in the middle of a financial crisis. reminders that unexpected developments can change outcome of elections. we saw that in 2018, john mccain, fellow named barack obama were dead-even until the metdown. mccain fell eight point behind barack obama. he was never able to make that up. these things can change on a dime when people lose lots of dimes. we remember how fickle history is. we'll look back then, see the differences and distinctions now. get a sense where we're going now, with the united capital ceo joe durant. capitalist pig hedge fund manager, jonathan hoenig. this notion of then versus now. people say watch out forbid did iness. if it gets excess sieve. are we different then t

susan: after lincoln, if you look at the line of presidents from lincoln all the way up until herbert hooverthere were a string of republican presidents. we are in a very much pro-tariff protectionist era. how does that contribute to the change in the american economy? peter: how much you attribute to the tariff and how much you attribute to other factors is always complex. nobody will ever know. tariffs are gigantic. you have really high tariffs. it is really a question of large tariffs or even larger terrors. -- tariffs. there is never a time of particularly low tariffs. by the 1850's the role is really recognizing the united states as an industrial power. there is a great desire to protect and service those manufacturing firms. the tariffs are one element to it. there is also tremendous improvements. there is technological hange. there's huge investment in ndustry. some of the push forward is coming from those sources as ell. it is certainly risky, but it is fair to say that in terms of industry getting its way it's golden. susan: did they contribute to the gilded age millionaires? peter:

herbert hoover stepped into office and all of sudden stock market crash and a big government democratdr. things can happen to turn upside down the political consensus. >> elizabeth warren has predicted a recession is coming. she hasn't given us a date. would be nice to do that. that is economist trick. that it is coming. yeah, it works oh, wow, you're amazing. >> i remember from her better hoover covering that race. i read about it. always good seeing you, my friend. vince on all of that. the dow up about 22 points. losses piling up for general motors in this on going strike entering its fifth week here. you won't believe what the dividing point is. it has very little to do with health benefit. it has virtually nothing to do with overtime pay. what it does have something to do with, something all the rage these days. after this. cologuard: colon cancer screening for people 50 and older at average risk. honey, have you seen my glasses? i've always had a knack for finding things... ...colon cancer,to be exact. and i find it noninvasively... no need for time off or special prep. it all s

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this is former president herbert hoover. this is actually one of dad's photos that came from one of dad's photo reels. he took the movies sometimes and my mother would complain that he used the movie film and he wasted the film. [laughter] rebecca: and he also -- president loved to golf. the agents would dress as golf caddies and they would carry a set of demi-club heads in their bags and a high-powered rifle or submachine gun. here he is here. and then i read once that eisenhower was the former general who hated war. he did much to try to maintain the peace. and it was a peaceful time. in the -- and then in 1957, he was reelected and here's vice president nixon here. and then, i did find dad here. i love this photo. watching the inaugural parade, eisenhower's with his grandchildren and president nixon is with his daughters, and this -- these sweet little children, they get married later in life. that's julie nixon and david eisenhower. dad spent a lot of time on augustine national golf park. he said he knew it like the back

herbert hoover didn't take it. this wasn't donald trump's idea.to listen to something else donald trump said today about his finances. let's listen to this. >> when you see my financials, which i'll give at the right time, you'll say, man, he was much better than we even thought. this guy knows right here, mnuchin, because he was in the private sector. he knows very much what i have. he would tell you. someday, maybe he'll tell you. >> someday, maybe he'll tell you. >> which means let's translate that as never. i will never, ever tell you. and steve mnuchin knows nothing about how much money i have. that's how we should translate that. in that same tape he also said at some point -- >> it begins with -- he's talking to reporters. "when you see my financials." >> yeah -- >> which they know they're never going to see. >> which he's been saying since 2015, his taxes and financials. during the course of that same conversation, he said i've taken a huge hit being president, it's cost me somewhere between $2 billion and $5 billion in lost revenue being

next on american history tv, a talk on world war i era german hunger from a conference at the herbert hooversidential library in west branch, iowa. the conference explored hoover's reputation as a great humanitarian during the world wars. it was his world war i work that provided the foundation for his white house run. in this session, mary elisabeth cox documents the depth of hunger among german women and

and it's only common sense and i think it's hardworking herbert hoover.an: you write at the time that they turn of the century in the last couple of decades the most famous. jeff: there weren't a whole lot of famous people in america. this is before radios, before movies and before television. mostly, american heroes in the military leaders and politicians. with the advent not just of newspapers but of news wires so something could happen with the america one day and be in the newspapers and other parts of the american the next, we start to see a few more people emerge. mark twain and so forth. but when thomas edison brings music into the home and when he brings films that were closer to large audiences and when it comes up with the incandescent bulb so your house and business have electric light. edison became the most famous man in america. everyone knew his name. henry ford not only because of the model t, but the five dollar workday in 1914 when he doubled the salary of his employees and pretty much forced competitors to have to raise the salaries of

>> next on american history tv, a talk on world war i era german atger from a conference the herbert hoover presidential library in west branch, iowa. to the conference explored hoover's reputation as a great humanitarian during the world wars. it was his world war i work that provided the foundation for his white house run. in this session, mary elisabeth cox documents the depth of hunger among german women and children between 1914-1924. name is mary cox. i'm pleased to be here. . just published my first book it was just released in the u.s. a few weeks ago. lecture, covers a lot of what is in the book, but there's also a lot more that is in there. what i want to do is tell you a was like towhat it be in germany as a civilian during the first world war and in the years following. as part of that

coolidge had a lot of visitors that came on the interactive with a lot of people herbert hoover who was a commerce secretary at the time came out here and visited coolidge in his office. he came out and visited coolidge here. leonard wood. charles lindbergh did apply over here they have flown across the atlantic and he was on a barnstorming kind of two or across the country. with the attention and celebrity. he also met with a lot of everyday people. he did make several visits with the native americans in the rapid city area. he also took a journey to the pine ridge indian reservation which is 40 or 50 miles east of here. for people in the tribe. some are excited about the visit. others were not. he went to a ceremony in deadwood. they adopted him to the sioux tribe they gave him a native american name. welcomed by some others who really resented that. they never came back to the black hills there was an effort to get him back here. it was a one-shot thing. eisenhower did come to the state game. not nearly as long but there was another presidential visit. back then it was just a large h

whittier college in california, and at the same time he was the trustee, little henry hoover, herbert hoover's wife was also a trustee. i am wondering if any of you know if the two first ladies ever met. >> i do not, but i would like to find that out. >> we will have to do research on that. you are talking to the right people. >> we have time for two more questions. wait in the back, with the lights it is tough for me to see -- way in the back, with the lights it is tough for me to see, but there is a hand they are. -- there. >> you are speaking about mrs. nixon jealously guarding her privacy. i am surprised you have not brought up how she had to give that up for one of the biggest events of their family life, tricia's wedding at the white house, how did she handle all of those preparations and opening that event to the world? >> good question. desire to have it in the garden, and she went with it. and, i can only say that i am certain that she handled it very graciously, and certainly with all of the photos that i saw subsequent to that, she looked radiant, and she made it look easy. what can

the historicack to republican party from abraham lincoln to william mckinley to herbert hoover, you will see an agenda that is very familiar when compared to president trump's agenda. here were the five biggest principles of comparison. first, protectionism. through all those years, the republican party was the party of high tariffs. trump's protectionism is a return to that policy. why protectionism? to allow the working class to live a healthy and prosperous life, to protect them from what we would call third world standards of globalized competition. that was the gop as argument. conjoined with an argument for the protection of critical industries either from a national security point of view or an economic development point of view. a very familiar, old-fashioned republican theme, second issue, immigration. there are both in party was in favor of immigration through those years but they were concerned to keep the levels of immigration to the numbers that could be assimilated or americanized. it was possible to have too much diversity and to have it too fast. even liberal social scien

tonight, biographer george nash recalls the work done by herbert hoover who saved millions of lives and set the stage for the white house run and this begins a night of programs from a conference on hoover's humanitarian efforts as presidential library and west branch, iowa is the host of this event and you can see it on c-span3 and enjoy american history tv every weekend also on c-span3. and this week we're showing you book tv programs and show casing what's available every weekend on c-span 2. tonight the theme is national defense and general james mattis recalls his military career and offers thoughts on leadership and calls on chaos. then ashton carter, another former defense secretary talks about his work on working in the pentagon, inside the five-sided box. and eyes in the sky, journalist arthur holland michelle reports on the pentagon's aerial surveillance system, and that's tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern on c-span2 and enjoy book tv every weekend also on c-span2. >>> i saw things about president trump's leadership trial that i had never seen in the fbi. i saw the way that hi

next on the presidency, we continue our coverage of a daylong conference on herbert hoover during thewo world wars. in about 40 minutes all four , conference speakers answer audience questions, but first, we hear from a kansas city art institute professor emeritus. he talks about the views and policies president franklin d . roosevelt and former president hoover on war-torn europe and the ti

a great example of how there was such a fundamental shift of even the voting populace between herbert hoover fdr. >> if you look at barack obama and-- >> if you look at the financial meltdown. >> you know, i think that if the doug scohen model plays out. neil: that's what it's called. >> the mistakes of your opponent to get you the win. i don't think that elizabeth warren in 2020 will be able to sold to the people in the waffle house across america worried about the bottom line. worried about losing their health care in medicare for all and pete buttigieg did point that out in the moderate democrat. and they're not going to be able to sell the enormous tax hikes elizabeth warren doesn't want to speak about and that's where they're going to lose. neil: normally you run to the middle after the nomination. >> right, right. neil: what happens? >> the middle? >> if she has to run back to the middle, she's coming from pluto. >> right, there's no middle. i think with the trump election it was all tied down. everyone was wrong, we all got it wrong. so in an era of trump-- yeah, yeah, sure you got it

tonight biographer george nash recalls world war i and relief work of herbert hoover which saved millions of lives and set the stage for his white house run at 8:00 p.m. eastern. we're showing you book tv programs, showcasing vaets whabl every weekend on c-span2. tonight the theme is national defense, including new books from former defense secretaries jim mattis and ash carter. that begins at 8:00 p.m. on c-span2. the white house today barred the u.s. ambassador to the european union from testifying in the impeachment inquiry in the u.s. house. following the decision we heard from the chairman and ranking member, but there's late news from that -- on that issue. the chairs of the house committee, the foreign affairs and the oversight committees and intelligence have announced they intend to subpoena u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland, who was blocked by the trump administration from testifying. here's what the chair and ranking member of the house intelligence committee had to say earlier before that subpoena was issued. >> good morning. we were informed about an hour and a half a