and he was also really good friends with herbert hoover. well when hoover was president, he thought wouldn't it be a great idea to have ding come join us at camp rapid inn, which was his retreat retreat while he was president from the white house. it wasn't far away. it was in virginia. shenandoah national forest and so dean met him there and after a while they decided to go for a horseback ride. so they went for a horseback ride and one of them. i'm not sure who but one of them had this great idea. gosh, why don't we try to dish the secret service? it's so they did they count off the secret service couldn't keep up or lost something happened. and so anyways, they lost them then they thought well wouldn't this be a lot of fun if we go to the ranger tower and watch the secret service try to find us so they did they climbed up to the top of the watchtower and they washed the secret service frantically trying to find their present of the united states and his good friend. so i thought that that's always a lot of fun to think about ding and grea

he was also a really good friend of herbert hoover. when hoover was president, he thought, wouldn't it be a great idea to have ding join us at camp wrap a new, which was his retreat while he was president from -- wasn't far away, it was in virginia, in the national forest. he met him there. after a while they decided to go for a horseback right. they went for a horseback right. one of them, not sure which, one of them had this great idea, gosh, why don't we try to ditch the secret service? and so they did. they galloped off. the secret service could not keep up, or lost them, something happened. anyways, they lost them. then they thought, wouldn't this be a lot of fun if we go to the ranger tower and watch the secret service try to find us? so they did. they climbed up to the top of the watchtower and watched the secret service frantically trying to find their president of the united states and his good friend. i thought that it's always a lot of fun to think about doing, my granddad. while the secret service, maybe they're still search

how would herbert hoover govern today? how would herbert hoover govern today?today, i first of all, i doubted he would recognize complexity and of the federal government for there is no federal deposit insurance corporation in existence during hoover's time when all those banks were failing. that would be one. one example on there is not there was not the expectation of massive federal intervention has now become commonplace. now that there's any jittering the economy, we all turn to the white house and congress and so on. automatically we expect the the president and the political elites to respond. and they are judged upon how much manage the how well manage the economy. so i think hoover, though, if you look at his later prophecies and arguments against new deal would would probably still want the gold standard offer for example he would probably be a fiscal hawk or as turned into especially in the last two years of the depression. and he turned a partner primarily because he thought that the gigantic federal deficit would undermine foreign investors confide

and then she makes the cover of time as the nation's first lady when herbert hoover wins with a landslide against al smith in the 1928 election. and so the hoovers go into the white house with a lot of excitement a lot of support bird has managed to win over southern states that had traditionally voted democratic but if you know anything about al smith, you will know that he was a catholic and he was in favor of ending prohibition and both of those things did not sit. well in the hyper conservative south so one of the things that luke confronts is that the south side of chicago has elected? it's low the loan black. member of the house and his name is oscar depriest. and it is common for the first lady to hold a reception for the wives of all of the elected members of congress. and so the question then becomes what are we going to do about mrs. depriest? the first lady is considered the social arbiter of washington if she invites mrs. depriest into the white house, she gives jesse dupree social legitimacy and shames all the other social social leaders in the city because she has recognized

we except to say that herbert hoover, being a businessman, had a keen sense of what would make the economy work. they are also balancing, and depending on your political views. but, to put your head into the hoover's heads, bear in mind that this is a couple who physically experienced, not just read it in the newspaper. they were on site and present during world war i they have seen what fascism does. communism has begun to encroach on europe, there are things being seen where the government is taking more and more control of individual lives. and, the perception is that if the government becomes too involved in our lives, the government gains control of our lives and we lose our independence and so, you have to balance the philosophy of the dignity of the individual with the government roll and how far government goes. that is really where both hovers are straddling that line, lou in private letters to her son allen, burton when he is trying to do with public policy it is just a very, very difficult time. there is a lot of intransigence interest of congress. burnt, unfortunately, was neve

herbert hoover was on that trip. hoover writes about it in his memoirs.arding met with hoover and said, we have another scandal, what should i do? should i publicize this? hoover said put it out there, let's publicize it, at least get credit for doing that. i think the reason he asked hoover that question is because he already had two suicides, particularly jesse smith. he is probably afraid, who else is going to shoot themselves? that is probably the plan. it's unfair to criticize harding a lot for teapot dome, aside for appointing albert fall, because he died in 1923, before he could do anything about it. obviously, he was going to put it out there and have fall prosecuted, fall was prosecuted, the first u.s. cabinet officer to go to prison. so he was punished for it. susan: we did not talk about harding's approach to prohibition. the chief law enforcement officer of the united states. how did he handle the approach to liquor? ryan: harding liked to drink alcohol. he actually stopped as president. the whole country was against prohibition. a lot of peop

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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 writing 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 adlai 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 marshall -- the essence was, morally bankrupt. so there was no forgi

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the national archives from herbert hoover to john all j trout. -- herbert hoover to donald j trump.reaching the 1 billion mark in electronic records. that is what keeps me up at night. [laughter] presidential libraries are not libraries in the usual sense. they are archives and museums bring together artifacts. the president, his administration and his family and presenting them in the public discussion without regard for the political considerations or affiliations. in litigating the first presidential library 1941, president franklin roosevelt captured the essence of the mission. to bring together the records of the past and to house them where they will be preserved for the use of many in the future. the nation must believe in three things. it must believe in the past, it must believe in the future, it must above all believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain and judgment and creating their own future. that text sounds exactly, captures the mission of the national archives today. the presidential libraries are a unique american phenomen

so herbert hoover wins in 1928 that february on saint valentine's day was when the valentine's day massacre happened in chicago, and it was the most brutal and just spectacular murder that the country had seen al capone was largely thought to have been the cause of it, but he said no no, i was in miami when all this happened. i was on vacation. in fact, i was in the district attorney's office being questioned at the very moment at hand said they never did find out who did it. but that was another thing that really started pushing public opinion against prohibition. well hoover took office the next month and then october the stock market crashed and that was the beginning of the great depression. the government everybody's funds dried up and employment rose the government's funds were getting very dry. and hoover when he took office promise to study prohibition, but eventually a report came out that said well, it's not really working. it's not enforceable, but we think we should keep doing it and he said that sounds fine to me a woman who had helped get him elected named pauline morton saban

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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

guy who seem to emerge as the heartthrob of this liberal wing of the party was someone named herbert clarke hoover. all these young guys like herbert rondell came to new york together mostly from the midwest and started their careers together. in the 1920s herbert hoover was deep into activism and dewey picked up that torch and do we and his classmates his friends became the standard bearers of the more moderate wing of the republican party and tom dewey was elected three times as the governor of new york and it was incredibly difficult to manage but he became the focal point and he managed to organized a well disciplined party which was ideologically practical. they were well oriented toward labor so it was part of an early hoover type system and then what happened was this terrible bifurcation within the republican party the more liberal wing and robert taft became the focal point of the more conservative party who were the anti-new deal and to pull it up by the roots. he stood down a third time and was a figure of hatred reviled by conservatives but he was still seen as the dominant figure in t

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together with them, in the 1920s, herbert hoover was a beacon of activism, and so on. dewey picked up that torch. and then as hoover turned on the new deal, dewey and his classmates, his friends, became the standard bearers of the more moderate wing of the republican party. and they were good at it. tom dewey was elected three times as the governor of new york. ethnically diverse, incredibly difficult to manage state, the politics are difficult to manage. but, dewey became the focal point. he managed to organize a sturdy, well disciplined party, which was not ideologically practical. yet, they were progressive, pro civil rights, they were well orientated toward labor. so, he became a sort of early hoover type of figure. then what happened was that there is terrible bifurcation within the republican party, where dewey represented the more pro-government, more liberal wing. bob taft, robert taft, became the focal point of the more conservative crowd, who were the anti new deal, and basically extirpate much of the new deal. pull it up by the roots. and that continued to d

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former president herbert hoover who was desperate to return to a to a leading role in the republican party read 30 newspapers every morning. president roosevelt busy as he was found time to read 11 newspapers every day, including two mccormick patterson papers and one hearse paper and he read editorial summaries compiled by his staff of the other newspapers. so, what did he find in these newspapers? first of all most of them? throughout much of his administration were opposed to the domestic new deal especially robert mccormick and william randolph hearst. now hurst had helped roosevelt win the democratic presidential nomination in 1932, but he had turned against the president by the spring of 1934 largely on two issues. he didn't like roosevelt's protections for unions, and he didn't like roosevelt's taxes on the rich. in his editorials which were often on the front pages of his newspapers hurst blame the new deal for bringing communism. secretly to the country. so here's one typical editorial in 1935 again all caps lock key. since we have moved left, we can see the monstrous russia

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national archives and records administration administers a network of presidential libraries, from herbert hoovert library was actually the first, and we now have 15 libraries. in total, more than 660 million pages of textural materials, 640,000 museum objects. and we are close to reaching the one billion mark in electronic records. that's what keeps me up at night. [laughs] presidential libraries aren't libraries in the usual sense. their archives and museums, bringing together the documents that are types of a president, his administration and his family. and presenting them to the public for study and discussion without regard for the political considerations or affiliations. indicating the first presidential library in 1941, president franklin roosevelt captured the essence of the mission to bring together the records of the past and to have them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of many in the future. a nation must believe and three things. it must believe in the past, it must believe in the future, it must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn

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was it george washington, john f kennedy, herbert hoover or bill clinton? adjusted for inflation. that's the keyword. >> yeah, definitely george washington. kennedy: george washington. george washington. i wish i could say other words. >> trying to think of something funny to say there. kennedy: george washington. george washington, 7 feet tall. you and chris win the game and tied with four points a piece and you both get covid cream from our bumbling president. congratulationings to everyone who plays. played. this is a magical night. jimmy, chris, and scott, thank you so much. >> thank you. kennedy: i'm a big fan. love it. all right, coming up, china launching missile strikes in the taiwan straight in response to house speaker nancy pelosi's trip. how much further will it go. we have more, next. kennedy: china is lashing out at house speaker nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan. the new york times reporting at least 11 chinese missiles fired into the seas north, south, and east of taiwan and missiles hit intended target to show force the biden administration calling for deescalation an

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he's the first president since herbert hoover in one term to lose the white house, the house and theate. he's also a guy, if you just look at the facts before us, that's got probably a really strong case against him for committing sedition against the united states of america. it's a really good case. that's just the beginning of it. if lindsey wants him to run again, that's great. lindsey must love being in e minority. i gue other republicans love being in the minority. they're encouraging him to run? you know who else wouldove for him to start running right now? every democratic elected official in america a every democratic candidate in america. make this a race about donald trump, please, democrats say, because republicans will lose once again. >> joining us now nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken delanian. also with us democratic strategist and former senior advisor for the house oversight committee kurt bardella. officials have remained pretty silent on this investigation. is there a chance that changes? are you surprised so far on the silence? >> there's probab

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herbert hoover is the president. eight years before world war ii. is this what we are right now?re under the threat of a 1931 law? >> sadly, we are. we are at this point in this country, and we are seeing prosecutors in the state of michigan 13 or so who said they would use this law to prosecute women. that goodness, governor witmer had the foresight to go into court before roe v wade was overturned to get a temporary injunction to prevent prosecutors from using this law to criminalize abortions. i love some of the passages in the order by the judge to heard this case, talking about a law on the books in michigan that makes it illegal to commit adultery and a saying that he could not remember a time when that law was used to criminalize individuals who did engage in adultery. what we are seeing is this selective prosecution by some who would choose to criminalize abortions, criminalize women who exercise their reproductive rights in a state like michigan, but yet turn a blind eye when it comes to things like adultery. but, this isn't just happening in michigan, as you know, the c