johnson greeted the hoover family. just outside union family the johnsons into thes lined up to watch the casket loaded onto the case on. the escort commander led the procession in washington dc down delaware avenue 3 blocks to the east from the fred fiumano. this included the army band, the national color detail, the caisson and the body barriers, the personal flag bearer, the comparison horse, black jack, next was the hoover family and limousines, president johnson followed with secret service escort and cars with other dignitaries. as the column moved down delaware avenue to the south, escort troops were in units along the east side of the avenue facing the center of the street. in order to the south were a company from each of the service academies, from the army marine corps, navy, air force and coast guard and composite company of servicewomen, the army national guard, air force reserve and coast guard reserve completing the line at the southern end more representatives from eight veterans organizations. as the p

hoover died. it's a combination of army photos and photos, black and white and color, from press, local residents. all kinds of media donations have come on over the years. silent film, color film of the army. because hoover's funeral was an army, military production, as former president. and also working in a couple of pieces of artwork. so it's kind of a full thing. the recording you will hear part of the way in, is the radio broadcast of wmt radio out of cedar rapids, iowa. and it features a man who went into television, price, and some of the other wmt on-air news people that followed the cortege from cedar rapids airport to west branch. and there's a full recording of the funeral service that is unedited. the assorted clips that you hear of the radio people are just that, segments, of longer, two and a half hour recordings -- but no one has two and a half hours to do this. so we can crunch it. but they did not cut any part of the funeral. even silences of things are as is. so, our story begin

is called hoover's last trip home. our speaker, lynn smith, the audiovisual archivist at the hoover presidential library and museum since november of 2000 whose previous work experience includes serving as department supervisor at the university of denver and archivist for the u.s. forest service in montana. she is a certified archivist and holds a ba in history from the university of northern colorado, masters in history from colorado state university and ml i asked from the university of denver. she chaired the society of american archivists in and professional conduct, workshops on ethics in midwest archives society of rocky mount archives. in her career she has been president of the society of rocky mount archivists, secretary of the academy of certified archivists and the midwest 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 f

, herbert hoover. - your wife has taught you so much. - yes. whenever i come to her with some fabulous thing at i've found out, she said, "john, all you had to do was come to my lecture on the subject." [john laughing] - [margaret] i'd like to tell you about my favoritrole that you played. - pardon me, i hate use a corny line like this, but haven't i seen you before? - you like football? - oh yeah, i used to watch it quite a bit. - well, you might've seen me. i was a tight end with the philadelphia eagles. number 90. robert muldoon. - oh, oh. - i d a great pair of hands. - yes, you did. - it's roberta muldoon. the first role for which you were nominated for an academy award, it was 1982, and a transgender theater critic favorably reviewed that character. and she said, quote: roberta is not a victim. she is not a prostitute. and she is not a punchline. and she is not a psychopath. she rings true as a human being rather than as a stereotype. and of course we know those are the ways that trans women and trans people were actually portrayed in 1982

hoover is not a cheap hobby among my first passions is a little boy that continues today. i started bookstores out of austin, texas my friends and i did called book stop we were the first giant discount bookstore we would go to coast to coast to miami we were seven years old barnes & nobled bought it that so they got bookstore business i made some money there my friends and i create a company i didn't call at this it later became overstock that went public in the meanwhile gone back to retailing from an airline stop paying for airline tickets i lost all the money. i had likeig a big house on lake austin that was a beautiful thing in austin, two and a half acres and about house. i sold all of that i've never sold a book i've given away a few. in a book publisher books are not goingth anywhere. when i die it will become one the best best bookstores in the country it's one-of-a-kind stuff it's signed by the chairman and the main stockholder mr. dupont. i have all kinds of crazy stuff that i i have collected through 65 years or 62 years or something like that. >> the most fund

talk about this cnn senior political analyst john avlon, cnn political commentate tomorrow margaret hoover. margaret, i want to start with you. what's your read on what governor newsom is doing here? >> their last names were not alito or thomas. look, it seems a little too cute. i understand what he's doing and he's trying to make a point. but that law in texas and mississippi, these are lawed that have passed through the legislature's lane by the governor. i don't know that governor gavin newsom can do this unilaterally. but he's trying to make a point.

and so he became sort of an early hoover type figure. and then what happened was there emerged this terrible bifurcation within the republican party where dewey represented the more activist, pro government, more liberal wing. and bob taft, robert taft became the focal point of the more conservative crowd who were the anti-new deal, anything but the new deal and basically that's sort of extirpate much of it. and that struggle continued through dewey's nominations, twice for the presidency and stood down third time. he was a figure of hatred and reviled by conservatives, but he still was there behind the scenes as the dominant figure in the more pro government, more liberal wing of the republican party. >> he was i think he was relatively short in stature. he was very dapper. that's a photograph of him. and alice roosevelt longworth, theodore roosevelt's daughter, who also had a way with words, she said he looked like the man on top of the wedding cake. >> the little man on the wedding cake. >> and that cut. it was -- easy to make fun of

why is this called a hoover belt? >> hoover was present at the time and you is not approved on very well by the american populace after he refused to do anything about the depression. >> he did somethings d not do the people interpreted as enough. these shantytowns at the edge of major cancer called hoover ville and that lots and lots of people lived where the families ran out of money. whether it was food, wethers clothing, whether it was shelter there were a lot of people who were making due or doing without during the 1930s because they simply did not have the wherewithal to do otherwise. now, one of the questions that we have is how did the depression change america's eating habits? there is a recent book about how the great depression changed how america eight. the answer is that the great depression was an era where cheap nutritious food was in vogue and that food generally lacked in taste. this food was not the haute cuisine. it was very, very bland. one great depression recipe that i've i seen that looks reall

firestone pressured hoover who in 1923, was then secretary of commerce, to work to get a congressionalropriation for half a million dollars for american experts to search foreign land for places and governments suitable to grow rubber. and that would be friendly to american interests. and initially, firestone thought that the philippines would be the best place to do this. -- [inaudible] american occupation of it. but despite his best efforts, he was unable to use his influence in the republican party to bend the philippine legislature to his will, to change their laws so that people could -- foreign corporations could own or at least more than 2500 acres of land. there was a limit in the philippines on how much land a foreign corporation could lease, limit to 2500 acres which was nowhere near enough to establish a large rubber plantation. then after that failed, firestone shifted his attention to liberia. liberia had the existence of an abandoned british rubber plantation. this is mount barkley. firestone never gave hood credit for his profitable advice. he instead attributed the idea

firestone pressured hoover to work to get in congressional appropriation for half a million dollars foramerican experts to search foreign lands for places and governments sutsable to grow rubber. that would be friendly to american interest. initially, fire stone thought that the philippines would be the best place to do this. he was unable to use his influence in the republican party to change their laws so that people could -- foreign corporations could own more than 2500 acres of land. there was a limit on how much land a foreign corporation would lease. it was nowhere near enough to establish a large rubber plantation. when his efforts in establishing the philippines as a source of american rubber failed, fire stone shifted his attention to liberia where he learned thest minister to liberia and a friend of dubois of the country suitable for growing rubber. this is on the mount barkley plantation. he's on the right with the tie next to donald ross scottish. he became the first operations manager on the plantations in liberia. together, father and son would use their significant influe

is called hoover's last trip home.peaker, lynn smith, the audiovisual archivist at the hoover presidential library and museum since november of 2000 whose previous work experience includes serving as department supervisor at the university of denver and archivist for the u.s. forest service in montana. she is a certified archivist and holds a ba in history from e

. >>> ingary hoover is the authorf this book the lifetime learner's guide to reading and learning about before we get into that, the themes of the book, in your biography it says you live in a 33 room house, 32 rooms of which contain books giving a 57,000 books in total. explain. a. >> a few more came last week so i've got to be closer to 60,000. it's an addiction and there's no 12 step program for book collectors. >> so a 33 room house the. >> i found a good bargain on an abandoned community health clinic in a small town in texas so it's got all these little exam rooms so each room is a different subject. i'm an information junkie i could look up anything in a book. a lot of questions you can't answer from a book but anything that was in the book and began to build this reference library. so there's very little fiction, but it covers almost every subject imaginable as far as nonfiction books and people are surprised and yet there's so much great stuff that hadn't been scanned under copyright. about my method i call it digesting ark book i normally spendon 15 to 30 minutes to grap what

is called hoover's last trip home.peaker, lynn smith, the audiovisual archivist at the hoover presidential library and museum since november of 2000 whose previous work experience includes serving as department supervisor at the

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 the more liberal wing of the republicans party. >> he was relatively short of stature very dapper in there's a photograph of him. roosevelt's daughter who had a way with words said he looked like the man on the top of the wedding cake. >> the little man on the wedding cake. >> it's easy to make fun of people. he was very responsible for nixon's emergence. you described in 1952 where nixon speaks in dewey comes out >> he said just stay the way you are and you can be president someday and they talked a lot and eisenhower's attorney general and campaign manager and brownell says is in his memoir do he made clear to me that this guy nixon will be due is candi

hoover's trip to his childhood home. >> today's presentation is called hoover's last trip home.our speaker is smith, audio visual archivist at the hoover presidential library and museum, where she's worked since november, 2000. her previous experience include serving as government documents department supervisor at the university of denver and archivist for the u.s. forest service in montana. she holds a b a from the university of northern colorado.

. >> and now on booktv the, we're live with author, historian and hoover institution senior fellow victor davis hanson who over the next two hours will take your calls and questions via e-mail, text and social media. his books include "the second world wars," "the case for trump," and most recently, "the dying citizen" in which he argues that the idea of american citizenship and the ideals associated with it are disappearing. >> host: well, it was in 2004 that victor davis hanson was first on this program. since that time he's written an additional seven books, so we invited him back to speak about those. his most recent book is called "the dying citizen," and, dr. hanson, in this book you write that, quote, history is not static. civilizations experience descents, detours and regressions and abrupt implosion. can you give us a sense of how you view our current situation? historically? >> guest: well, yeah. a lot of barometers or maybe indices of what makes a civilization successful i'm very worried about because they're all predicated -- i guess i would clarify that by saying constitutio

our speaker, lynn smith, the audiovisual archivist at the hoover presidential library and

be hoover in 1930 -- beat hoover in 1932. just kind of a punching bag, a way of trying to cut other democrats down. and democrats contributed to that five shunning -- by shunning carter at many democratic conventions since he was president. most democrats didn't really want to be connected to him. but carter was such an active former president that his successors all had to deal with him. i actually deal with in my book, in some detail, with his very fraught relationships in particular with the clinton, but also with barack obama, although obama, i reviewed for the book and i also interviewed george h w bush about jimmy carter as well but barack obama said very nice things about carter, but out his 2008 convention, he didn't want carter there or in 2012. his involvement was minimal in part because of some things that carter had been saying at the time. and then carter felt kind of abandoned by obama when obama was president and a little hurt. at one point, early on in my conversations with jimmy carter eisenhower you describe

johnson and hoover were very specific. we need to cut off speculation about oswald's motives and his associations. very quickly, people at the top of the government realized the most convenient truth was this guy did it and nobody else is responsible, and we will not investigate anybody in the u.s. government involved in it. so, they decided what they wanted to find before the investigation had even begun, before kennedy had been buried, johnson and hoover decided they had the solution. one guy did it alone for no reason. the warren commission ratified that finding but it was never particularly credible. it simply wasn't. people say conspiracy theories, it was very simple and this has been driven up by conspiracy theorists. but that is not true. pollsters went out a week after the assassination and did a statistically valid poll of 1000 people, what do you think happened, who was responsible? in the two polls, 60%-70% of the people in dallas and nationwide said more than one person was involved. at that time, there were no

i mean, you're talking everything from the hoover dam to the highway infrastructure system.different now? >> yeah, you're absolutely right. this used to be a point of pride. i mean, go back to the erie canal, the transcontinental railroad-- hoover dam, the biggest public works project in history, at the time, in the middle of the depression, finished two years ahead of schedule and under budget. and we just don't seem to be able to do that anymore. literally, the "new york times" recently cataloged from one end of the country to the other massive delays and cost overruns. the long island railroad connection to grand central terminal now estimated years late at three or four times the original cost. out here in california back in 2008, the voters approved a high speed railroad from l.a. to san francisco, right? that is now-- supposed to be finished last year at $30 billion, it's now projected to be finished maybe in 12 years, at a cost of at least $100 billion, the first link, from bakersfield to fresno. honolulu's rail system is years behind schedule, and we're seeing this o

>> gary hoover is the author of this book, "the lifetime learner's guide to reading and learning," but before weidg get into that, the themes of the book, mr. hoover, injure biography it's as you live in a famous three-bedroom house. 32 rooms of which contain books. 57,000 in all. explain. >> i'm afraid if you mark in last weeks i've got to be closer to 60,000. it's an addiction and there's no 12 step program for book collectors. >> i found a good ba an abandoned community health clinic in a small town in texas so it's got all these little exam rooms. they're just perfect or filling up so each room is a different subject and it's a very unusual living in arrangement to put it mildly. >> how many of those 60,000 books have you read? >> i actually don't read books. or with limits. so i have a method. it's in the book we're talking about. i call it digesting a book and what i am is an information junkie. i started collecting world atlases and backs when i was seven years old and trying to figure out how the world works and my goal is to have a personal reference library where i could look

>> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... and ... corporate funding is provided by... >> dana canedy, welcome to "firing line." >> thank you. thanks so much for having me. >> you share an incredibly powerful and persuasive story. >> thank you. >> you grew up in a military family, and you promised yourself you would never fall in love with a litary man. >> mm-hmm. [ laughs ] >> tell me how you fell in love with sergeant charles king. >> so, first sergeant charles monroe king. it's funny -- you make plans, and god laughs, because i met him in the living room omy parents' house in a small town in kentucky. i walked in, and i was like, "damn, damn, damn, damn, damn! he is so cute, and he's a soldier." but he had such an amazing heart and such character that i couldn't help but fall for him. >> let's take a look at one of your early encounters with charles, as is portrayed in the new movie, "a journal for jordan." he is played by michael b. jordan, and you are played by chanté adams. >> charles, please. i appreciate the manners, but you c

final trip to his west branch, iowa, childhood home. >> today's presentation is called hoover's last trip home.

>> guest: i, i'm a senior fellow, that's somebody who is attached to the hoover institution there. it's an incompetent research -- i shouldn't -- independent research are. i shouldn't say independent. quasi-independent. it has its own governing board and endowment. i think it's evolved into a sense that it's like the medical school or the law school, that it's a professional entity that's attached to stanford. and then you're out-audited or you're expected to do research and popular dissemination of that research. so -- and, and then you're tenured through the staff tenure process. and i've been there the, i retired from cal state-fresno where i was a classics professor since, in 2004. and then i teach the, i taught for 17 years at hillsdale college. i take a month off in the summer. that's been reduced a little bit to two and a half weeks. and then i teach at hillsdale right when they start, right before the hoover starts up again after summer. and i guess i was, i graduated from stanford university in 1980 with a cree in classics concern degree many classics. so i have a long his

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

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