archives conference so she has collected some great photos and audio files and shared with us from herbert hoover services in 1964. hoover died october 20th, 1964, buried in west branch on the 20 fifth. thank you for joining us. looking forward to the presentation. >> thank you for your kind introduction and i want to make note this marks the second year of the third thursday and i'm happy to be part of watching what would be the next year and kind of a note, this coming october 20 seventh is world day for audiovisual heritage, a key initiative of the coordinating council of audiovisual archives associations to honor archival institutions for safeguarding our heritage for future generations so in that spirit was able to put together a video visual production of what happened on those few days after october 20th when mister hoover died. it is a combination of army photos and photos from local residents and all kinds of media donations over the years of silent film, his funeral was. and also worked in a couple pieces of artwork. it is a full thing, the recording, to wmt at cedar rapids, iowa, and f

hoover's' two sons of herbert junior allen and margaret and their six hegrandchildren. e reverent terence j finley the director of saint bartholomew's and a personal front of the hoover family conducted the funeral service. saint bartholomew's reopen to the public at 5:00 p.m. through 9:00 p.m. so thehe people lined up around the block at the church, which was located at 51st and park avenue in new york city waiting to view his flag covered casket. between the 21st and 22nd some 22000 people paid their respects at saint bartholomew's church. the church was open from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on the 22nd. and then three -- 5:00 p.m. and then 9:00 p.m. october 22 the family and friends arrived at the church. the u.s. militaryxt academy van along the company of cadets from west point were on hand. hundreds of people watch from across thehe street. joint service honor core lined the steps but the top of the steps leading from the church on park avenue the body barriers waiting will the band played. when the band began the ham lord thou hast been our dwelling place the body b

interlude in herbert hoover, a rare fulfillment.hen in which public service - consciously nourished ideals, required every question, the life to which god had called him, whether humble or exalted. the conception that could be mentioned without self-consciousness. each person should show diligence in his calling, that he shod rchase simplicity and that he should accept responsibility foromunique contribution to the total community. the most important thing to say about herbert hoover is he has demonstrated an ethic which is identical with that which made america great. some suppose we have outgrown it or we ought to outgrow it but a life like that which we honor today is the best reputation of that position. it is not unreasonable to see herbert uber's life in 6 major chapters, first, a boy in iowa and oregon. third, engineer in various countries, director of relief. it might be supposed the last of these chapters - and said his influence has gone from strength to strength. became very ideal of the elder states. speaking seldom, cou

general dodge steps up to herbert hoover jr.l flag which was used in this funeral service for the nation's 31 st president. the casket now stands over the grave with the wreath of white flowers resting upon it. at the front of the casket is the presidential wreath. made up of red, white and blue carnations. around it flowersf every deriion. one made up in the form of a cross, a cross o white flowers, another a seld of the united states colors. and the tribute which the nation has paid to the 31st president of the united states is at an end. this is grant price. speaking from the herbert hoover burial site returning you to our studios. >> that is that. >> thank you. we do have just a couple minutes a lot of questions to run through. we were wondering why do they refer to them as body bearers instead of pallbearers? >> probably a cultural. it could be old school. throughout almost all of the radio men refer to the box in which the body was in as a coffin. it is a casket. a coffin is a diamond-shaped like picture a kite with a top

the new york stock exchange had suspended trading, acquiescing to tradition a dow herbert hoover rode with his successor on a one and a half mile parade route from the white house to the capitol. franklin waived his silk top hat and flashed his famous grin in response to the cheering crowds to camouflage the president, flexibility to war, inability to walk. inaugural chairman dr. carey grayson. woodrow wilson's former physician and no stranger to presidential cover ups, had a wooden passageway construct it from the capitol rotunda to the site of the swearing in on the east front film of franklin traversing the final 35 feet down a ramp to the speaker's podium. shows his body upper body swaying back and forth as he propelled himself toward lectern with his son james. on his left. neither franklin's cane nor his vice grip on james's arm is visible. even the oath of office had to be staged to create the impression that franklin was standing unassisted facing chief justice charles evans use his right hand raised his left surreptitiously grasping for support with a 17th century dutch famil

these were two and herbert hoover, of course, in early twenties, i.e. in the late teens early twenties, i think was probably much more famous than calvin coolidge after war, he organized a lot of relief efforts. i was it was we know that wilson was a progressive and we've heard a little bit about his progressivism. what do we know about specific influence that he had on coolidge? are there particular morsels? was would you call hoover more of a conservative? coolidge? was coolidge influenced by him at all? by the he called him the wonder boy. i know they didn't get along right. okay. well, herbert hoover was a republican from iowa where as a boy, he said the only democrat in town was the town drunk. and then in the progressive period, he, like many american engineers, admired teddy roosevelt and his nationalism and so on, and became bull moose, progressive supporter of hoover did so he and coolidge diverged in 1912, and they didn't know each other at that time. then hoover served. considered himself republican. but nonpartisan war service as food admini

i would say herbert hoover. lauren: three in a row for me.inally given the nickname leslie lynch king junior, it wasn't legally changed to gerald ford until 1935. a little bit from the powell downward moment, we will see what happens in the next hour. here is neil

and herbert hoover was another. and seriously, there are lots of heroes who aren't or shouldn't be. and we've done our level best to either confuse ourselves with history or just hope that no one notices how badly we teach it. - well, you have been warning americans for more than two decades about our failure to teach the next generation civics. - right. - actually, you spent four years researching civics at oxford. and out of it came a book, "one thought scares me: we teach our children what we wish them to know; we do not teach our children what we don't wish them to know." - [dreyfuss] right. - how do you define civics? - civics are the tools that allow you to understand the constution, the bill of rights. why, for instance, are there some rights that are included within the constitution and some that are not. - the rules of the road in democracy? - well, it's how do you get there. and it included the ideas that you needed critical analysis. you needed to have a clear head. and reason and logic were a part and parcel of civics. and if you didn't learn reason and common sense, you

and or if or if or if herbert hoover. you could make a case and it could have very well happened with a few adroit maneuvers for herbert hoover immensely, popular among democrats and republicans everybody could have won the presidency in 1920. and there was an historian one, even though i didn't i do agree with all those conclusions when fellow named richard hofstadter, who wrote about the tragedy of herbert, was the imagine of herbert become president in 1921 instead of 1929. how great his reputation would have been prosperous decade. that again assumes the decade was inevitable. hoover had a very different attitude towards economic policy. another subject for, another time, and he would not have appointed andrew mellon the treasury. and so would have been a very different decade in terms of what we had. so tax cuts are crucial. as you've heard, the decade of the 1920s turned out to be one of the most innovative, constructive decades in human history setting. the stage for american growth and indeed for world growth for

there was a commission in which then secretary herbert hoover, a partizan, pitted, arguing for what many today would consider to be the standard approach, which is when you have a downturn, you want to have upward pressure on wages. the idea is if people can be paid more, even though the economy is doing bad, they might spend more and their spending would increase production and jumpstart the economy, help weather the storm and get us back to a solid that's very standard economics. but this at the time was only a commission. there was no official wage policy that was implemented from that the employers in 1920s therefore did what sort of a market would suggest you ought do they let wages fall or stays just stay stable. stable me certainly is painful when wages are cut. but if the choice is between being laid off and having hired unemployed or lowering wages, i think most most employees, certainly employers would much prefer to have a somewhat lower wage still to have a job in the early 1920s downturn was handled in what was the traditional way that time and. then later, of course there w

he said he could have been franklin d roosevelt or herbert hoover, and he chose to be. yes, he did. so that was the right thing. that was the right thing. yeah. i mean, the right thing. i mean, you know, the big one was fannie and freddie, actually. i mean, because that happened the weekend before lehman and then, you know, two weeks later that the whole thing was falling apart and tarp was proposed. so let's go back to politics and. this is another question from one of your friends here. do you think that reelection weighs heavier on the minds of congress than the catastrophe of defaulting on the debt? well reelection is very important to every congressman and senator and president and and so it weighs very heavy. i don't know whether really understand the implications defaulting on the debt. you just don't know when you listen. some of the statements they make. but, you know, again, may be just pure politics, but yes, reelection is important. but if we default our debt, there's going to be hell to pay. and many of them might not get reelected. so a final concluding points you did

population within the cities, the journals curtis, the senator kansas became vice president under herbert hoover and he was candidate for our indian met same same group back then the state of candlestick named after camp came to indians. and so while he was still true of kansas in congress, then he introduced something called the curtis act, which the government of the price of mice tribes in the indian church was. well, if they were to assimilate they were building a very big government schools, forts, but they were not in line with the territorial development. and so charles curtis, it would be better to dissolve their government in order to make them apart within the territory in that the movement was becoming state. so then you take the the chin, then subtract these five, and then we come to group right here and five, then presidents. so with the five remaining presidents, franklin roosevelt, john kennedy, jimmy carter bill clinton and richard nixon, let's look at so in the top left hand corner, fdr was not so much as a hands on president. i mean, babbitt could only be the tension trying to

process and so he thank you max for listening to me rant after i'd been reading for 7 hours about herbert hoover i i really owe him a lot so thanks max. but yeah, i think that's that's the story i was definitely relying on a lot of recently digitized archival stuff. palo alto, really good at digitizing stuff, not so good at reading palo alto is really good at digitizing stuff, not so good at reading stuff. so there's a lot of really great material that is digitized and then like left alone and not used for these histories, even though the end of repeating the same historical material from the same five interviews and book after book after book or the vocal interview the guy and asked him to b repeat history fm that of b the book so he can put in this book. answer finding some of that history, oral histories have been recorded that like now has a really great stock of oral histories from the tech industry. so i really got to like play around with sources, and this s the product i hope you all like it. >> grade. let's have a round of applause. [applause] >> thank you, guys. >> and a second ground

process and so he thank you max for listening to me rant after i'd been reading for 7 hours about herbert hoover really owe him a lot so thanks max. but yeah, i think that's that's the story i was definitely relying on a lot of recently digitized archival stuff. palo alto, really good at digitizing stuff, not so good at reading stuff. and so there's a lot of great material that digitized and then like left alone and not used for these histories, even though they end up repeating the same historical material from the same five interviews in book after book after book, or they'll go interview the guy and ask him to repeat the story from that other books he can put in this book. and so finding of that history, oral histories that been recorded that like cal has a really great stock of oral from the tech industry. um, so i really got to like play around with sources and this is the product. i hope you all like it. great. let's have him around the books, stuff. and a second round for the conversation. the object

while donald trump had the worst jobs record since herbert hoover, president biden has helped create5 million jobs -- the most ever created in 2.5 years. as jamie mentioned, we have the lowest unemployment rate in almost 50 years and some of the lowest unemployment for african americans and latino families on record. after a recession that was made worse by trump's failure to tackle the covid-19 pandemic, president biden has let us let -- has led the strongest economic recovery of any industrialized nation in the world. and i want to make sure that people understand that president biden came in office focused on fighting covid, but also restoring this economy and making sure that we continue to lead the country. the other thing that distinguishes this president from the people that you will hear tonight when the president talks about covid and leading us out of covid, he doesn't talk about it just as a pandemic. he talks about it as the fact that so many people lost husbands and wives and children and parents, and that it was a toll on the families in this country. after president tr

i would say herbert hoover. lauren: three in a row for me. dave: july 14, 1913, originally given the nickname leslie lynch king junior, it wasn't legally changed to gerald ford until 1935. a little bit from the powell downward moment, we will see what happens in the next hour. here is neil. neil: read it but don't purchase it, stocks are up for the time being but i want to show you something that does the sway of jerome powell, every time he's before a microphone no guarantee stocks will be higher after he finished speaking. most locations, when he speaks stocks tank and that is when he started speaking in jackson hole, wyoming, what got them skittish, inflation remains too high, that's how he kicked things off, stocks going up 200 to down down down. he said we would keep raising rates to fight inflation if that is necessary. the economy growing faster than we expected. we raise rates further and that is what it takes. i'm paraphrasing here. they were rocketing, stocks have come back more than a little bit but this is just a snapshot for the

administration and periodically were different changes but for the most part it was the bedroom and herbert hooverled the lincoln study, fdr called the lincoln study and the lincoln bedroom aftert hearing truman but there was this interest about what to do with this from restore, you call into bedroom so the troop lincoln era and used space so i wanted to ask panelists to talk us through the project, what all went into it and how it came about and how it was executed. i will open up the floor to whoever would like to start off. >> during lincoln's time, that is not the bedroom, it was the office. they were not placed in the lincoln bedroom under president truman. until the early 2000's, the rooms are not mentioned. you are seeing in the early photos, it was installed in that room in 1852 so you can imagine early 2000 it was time to replace. laura bush decided to take the project on. it would have been to create this study for the lincoln furniture and the room should be restored as much as possible so january 2002, she approached the committee for the preservation of the white house and asked they

but the idea alert in my mind that i might ask herbert hoover to return to washington as secretary of state. his great experience both as cabinet officer and as president would have been almost indispensable to me unquote. the closest any lawmaker has apparently come to indicating that he or she might not serve for any extended period of time as acting president was senator carl heat served as ppt 1950s in the 1960s. the senator remarked that had he been elevated the oval office you'd have taken the following steps. quote i'd call congress together. of the house elected new speaker, then i'd resign and let him become acting president unquote. interestingly hayden's active self-denial did not involve his declining job altogether. and allowing to pass to the secretary of state instead hayden indicated if you would ensure that the acting president would come from the legislative branch. i will defer to the next panelist dr. fins in a mom will discuss experience of speaker albertsons who's experience has also relative relevant in this context. finally, i would note that speaker dennis has

he then stayed on under herbert hoover, right, the dawn of the great depression. they were not related to their were lots of new stories about it at the time. he was then therefore all three plus terms of franklin roosevelt's presidency, so he is there through the new deal. he is there altered the second world war. he stays under harry truman. he is there under mccarthyism for the red scare. he stays under dwight eisenhower to the 1950's. he is there under john kennedy. he is there under lyndon johnson. and he is there under richard nixon and finally dies in may 1972, still in office. so one of the things that really true me to writing about hoover was this amazing sweep of time, the fact that he had his fingers in everything, but also there were important and i think complicated things to say about the changes in the city of washington throughout that period, changes throughout the federal government, in particular, the growth of the federal government and the security state during that period, in the story about how a simple bureaucrat could wield enough power t

you know, herbert hoover in the great depression was accused of saying, which he didn't, saying prosperity is just around the corner. trust us. no, the american people don't and when they say inflation is slowing, that means prices are going up and people are noticing at the gas pump, prices are going up again. elizabeth: now there's cnn poll. two-thirds of cnn voters that vnn polled disapprove of biden and 51% of economy in the downturn getting worse. then moodies downgrading the banks and dealing with inflation from government overspend. steve, feels like the economy is on a loop, what do you think? >> the economy is suffering from the economic equivalent of walking pneumonia. some parts are doing okay but other parts are not. when you have the head winds out there and federal reserve is raising interest rates again, they still believe you fight inflation by depressing the economy and making people poorer. coping with a lot of debt coming due. they have to renegotiate interest rates and consumer debt is rising and interest rates on mortgages are inching up again and look at the scene and

found to might lots only to become acting president but the ideal alert in my mind i might ask herbert hooverreturn to washington to secretary of state. his great experience but this cabinet officer and president would have been almost indispensable to me." the close of saint lawmaker has apparently come to indicate he or she might not serve for an extended period of time served as ppt in 1950s and 1960s. consider remark had he been elevated to the ovalwi office he would've taken the following steps. quote i would call congress together in the house elect a new speaker than i would resign and let him become acting president." interestingly's active self-denial did not decline the job altogether about past a secretary of state. instead he indicated he would ensure the acting president would become the legislative branch. i will defer into the next panelist to experience also is relevant in this context. friend evernote speaker dennis he did not become acting president but unlike senator hayden he would have respected responsibility" i really did not want to be president permanent or temporary.

he stayed on under herbert hoover, the dawn of the great depression. they were not related. there were a lot of new stories about that at the time. he was then therefore all three terms of franklin roosevelt's presidency so he is there through the new deal, through the second world war. he stays on under harry truman. he is therefore mccarthyism. he stays under dwight eisenhower and john kennedy and under lyndon johnson and he is there under richard nixon. and he dies in may, 1972 still in office. one of the things that really drew me to writing about hoover was this amazing sweep of time. the fact that he had his fingers in everything but also there were really important and complicated things to say about the changes in the city of washington throughout a period, changes in the federal government and its security state during that period and a story on how a single bureaucrat could wield enough power to reshape many aspects of american politics from our law and order politics, to the way law enforcement in this country is carried out, to its broader politics constraining a

the idea alerted my mind that i may ask herbert hoover to return to washington secretary of state hisat h experience as cabint officer and president would have been almost indispensable to me" e the closest any lawmaker has come to indicating he or she may not serve an extended period of time as acting president was in the 1950s-1960s. the senator mark that having an elevated deal of allotments you've taken the following steps "i'd call congress together have the house elect a new speaker and then i would resign and become acting president. interestingly, self-denial did not fall to the job altogether. instead he indicated he would ensure that the acting president would come from the legislative branch. i will refer to the next panel in a moment. discussingxp the importance ofy, this speaker who is also relevant in this context. finally i would note that the speaker did concede that he did not want to become acting president but unlike the senator he indicated that he would've accepted responsibility. i really did not want to be president, permanent or temporary. my wife jean who was

laura: trump is the only president since herbert hoover to leave office with fewer jobs in the countryd. and the biden campaign expressed confidence bidenomics is working, telling newshour, "we are running an aggressive campaign, and will be communicating the choice americans have in this race between president biden's experienced leadership, while drawing a contrast with the deeply unpopular and twice-rejected maga agenda, focused on tax giveaways to the ultra rich." it's a contrast both campaigns will hammer in the months to come. for the pbs newshour, i'm laura barron-lopez. ♪ geoff: two years ago today taliban fighters poured into , afghanistan's capital, kabul. the army melted away, and president ashraf ghani fled for his life. the country that the u.s. and nato spend nearly 20 years fighting to build was suddenly controlled again by the same taliban who the u.s. deposed after 9/11. nick schifrin is back from parental leave, and look back on this anniversary, and in afghanistan. nick: after nearly two decades of combat, american sacrifice, and more than 100,000 afghan lives, the t

there were different changes to it but for the most part it remained the bedroom even though herbert hoover called it the lincoln study and the lincoln bedroom after harry truman, but there was this interest about what to do with this room to restore the historical elements, calling it the lincoln bedroom, why no -- why not go back to the true lincoln era when lincoln used the space. i wanted to ask our panelist to talk us through this project. what all went into it and how it came about and how it was executed. i will leave the floor open. >> during lincoln's time, that room was not the bedroom, it was the office. the lincoln era furnishings placed in the lincoln bedroom created in 1945 under president truman, so the early 2000s, the room hasn't changed much, the carpeting you were seeing in those early photos was installed in that room in 1952. as you could imagine by the early 2000s, it was time to replace it. it was first lady laura bush who decided to take this project on and it would have been easy for her to have brought a decorator in and brought in a nice victorian looking setting