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

hoover. hello, mrs. hoover, so great to see you. and so then we get on the elevator we go upstairs and there is 31 a now somebody was living there so we couldn't walk in but we looked at it and you know, i guess my grandmother recognized the look on my face because as a boy i was looking at a door with a placard. he said 31a with no real understanding or context. so then grandma turned to grandad and said dad don't you think we should show little owl the plaque out front. so then we he says yes, that would be a terrific idea. so let me go downstairs and that's where this picture came to be. we're downstairs and the plaque is to the left of grandad in this picture and it is facing street. and so i read the plaque and it said the new york of presidents herbert hoover the 31st president of the united states and then all made sense like oh my gosh, your dad was the president and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. and so then i looked at my grandmother and i said grandma, this is amazing. can i take a picture of this plaque because my

alan hoover the third is a great grandson of herbert hoover. allan grew up in sacramento, california and received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from uc berkeley. he and his wife michelle have three children and live in a suburb of denver, colorado. allan has worked on engineering projects all across the country. he also serves on boards related to the herbert over legacy. allan also enjoys golf, surfing and traveling. however of these three activities he's only skill that traveling. before we meet allan, and they show you this clip of the herbert hoover presidential library and museum dedication from august 10th, 1962. let's take a look! >> the library, thrilling records of supreme action by the american people. devoted and sacrifice to their ideals. someone said those who do not remember their past are condemned to relive it again. [inaudible] and these records there are -- made by a political opponents as well as the expression of a free nation -- we may hope that hoosier students will rely on our friends. [inaudible] [app

hoover wearing a cotton gown. instead of instead of using the opportunity for she was trying to support american farmers. and particularly american cotton farmers excuse me. liu was the first first lady to actively campaign for her husband we take that a lot for granted now, but she was the groundbreaker on this. and after she left the white house, just quick thumbnail. her contributions to stanford university, which is she relocated to the home. she had built in palo alto. she began an organization called friends of music which eventually became the stanford university school of music. but it began as a concert series to bring music culture to the area. she also personally funded several musician artists including a harpist him. she liked mildred dilling. she had just gone to a performance of mildred dilling a couple of hours before she passed away in 1940 before lou passed away in 1944. who also was instrumental in working with her colleagues and friends that she had at stanford university in women's health cent

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

hoover gets the toppling but if you read the captain's it is mrs. hoover, mrs. hoover. and she was fine with that, she hated the limelight, and hating the limelight and not wanting publicity as part of the reason we do not know these many things about her. like i said, her name was not in the masthead of the women's division of crb but she was a big fund-raiser for them. so, in 1922 at a conversation around dinner table, discussion ensues about how physically unfit america authorities get. does this sound familiar? she worked with officials and other cabinet offices and they form a national amateur athletic federation. she worked with the women, she was the only female on the board. she was the vice president and she worked with the women's division to help to find funding for the women's division. she wrote this book about the spirit of sport. she was about everybody being engaged in sporting events. she saw in the 1920s how college sports were being professionalize, imagine that she was 100 years ahead of her time. she wrote that, she thought it was a sad thing becaus

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

me just up the road from the massive hoover dam. and he sent us this update. ah, good the expensive fountain water display in front of so called sin cities, i called the colton bellagio real thing of the past soon. no, at least not yet. but as the entire southwest region of the u. s. is facing the bigger drought water or not having enough of it any more has become the big problem for las vegas at the entire state of nevada. we're meeting with christian gear luck, community activists and senior representative of national environmental organization. the sierra club christian is to show us a place called eco bay within what is known as lake meet national recreational area, just a few miles east of las vegas. hardly anybody ever comes really to echo bay. unfortunately, it was a very popular spot, so popular, in fact, it had an airport. but as you can see, the water levels dropping so dramatically. it's affected the economy of the area. there are not people coming out to visit and recreate as much here in echo bay eco bay is not the only spot falling victim to the

as christina, top the flight attendant from germany, visits hoover dam. she is alarmed by what she observed. i think the belgian rang long time ago and this it should keep on ringing and something has to be done about it. absolutely. it is very dangerously low and we actually up a flight through so we flew over here days ago and just the seat also from a buffer. 40000 feet. i can show you a picture. it's unbelievable meats, water level shrink by a whopping $100.00. 50 plus feet in the last 40 years, an ever growing so called white beth top ring here and at other reservoirs would have devastating effects for all us states in the lower colorado river basin. for tens of millions of people and hundreds of thousands of businesses in nevada, arizona, california, and even in mexico, we are on track to see additional drops in the water levels on to the point to where it's, it's scary we may face what is called deadpool, where water will not even flow out of late need further down the colorado river system. fixing this problem requires understanding where it start

decided she'd had enough and she turned her book her back on hoover. she resigned from the republican party and she started the women's organization for national prohibition reform. one per what a acronym but again, she was in the same mold of the lady who ran the wctu. she could organize anything and they made because she and her wealthy lady friends and their rich husbands are writing the checks to make the thing run any woman in the country could join for free so they had this huge coalition of shop girls and housewives and factory workers who were all working for national prohibition reform. the interesting thing is they use the same argument. the the temperance movement folks had that we are protecting families because since there was no alcohol in the country. there was no reason to regulate the alcohol that wasn't there. so young girls and teenage boys were going to speak easy and there were no rules against it, you know a decent woman would not have gone in a bar before prohibition except maybe miss kitty, so these women jumped on the bad wagon

and then in 1992, the hoover presidential foundation, along with hoover director richard martin smith, led an effort to make the museum new again. i remember the first time i visited the library, i remember i felt that paul of the glass cases were gone, and i felt i was transported into herbert hoover's life. that was terrific for 1992. but i think what i have just shown you is perfect for 2022, 2023, and beyond. we hope it creates a new feeling of wonderment and inspiration, so the world can learn about these great americans. and from the hoover presidential foundation, it is time for this dream to become a reality. fortunately, we have a dedicated board of trustees that are looking towards the future. late last year, they completed their concept design, which i just shared some of today. you may have also seen some of their work at the lincoln presidential library in springfield, which is absolutely terrific. if you haven't visited it, i encourage you all to do so. it's really amazing. we are very early in the process, but the goal is to have it updated, interactive, and an immersiv

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

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 do is nominations. twice for the presidency. and that he stood down a 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 a more pro-government, more liberal wing of the republican party. >> he was relatively short in stature. he was very dapper. there is a photograph of him. alison roseville, roosevelt's daughter who also had a way with words, devastating she called, he looked like the man on the top of the wedding cake. >> a little man on the wedding cake. >> that cut. it is easy to make fun of people. >> that was a snapshot. but it took. >> he was very

why would ernest weathersby valuable to j edgar hoover at the time?time had no black agents. they could not just show up at a civil rights meeting. this is a time when fbi agents were being particularly accreted by hoover to be a white guy republicans from omaha, right? we love omaha, but you know what i mean. a very specific, clean-cut look. that is not the best workforce if you are tryg to infiltrate a black civil rights movement that is playing out in urban centers across the country. these human assets became vitally important for the fbi. people who could be in the room, knew everyone's name, introduce themselves, could ask for someone's address and it t be suspicious. ernest was a sponge of information. he already was one, he was a local photographer and he knew everyone and their mother and cousin, he knew where they lived in what their birthday was he had a lot of information. now the fbi could prime him to ask for questions. a lot of what ernest did is sold them photographs, photographs he would take otherwise and might sell to the associated

he w stuff on simon's to night reports from lake mead near hoover dam. ah. good. the expensive fountain water display in front of so called sin cities, i call nikoto colacho. be a thing of the past soon. know at least not yet. but as the entire southwest region of the u. s. is facing a mega drought water or not having enough of it any more has become a big problem for las vegas and the entire state of nevada. we're meeting with christian galactic community activists and senior representative of national environmental organization. the sierra club christian wants to show us a place called echo bay, within what is known as lake meet national recreational area, just a few miles east of las vegas. hardly anybody ever comes really to echo bay. unfortunately, it was a very popular spot, so popular, in fact, it had an airport. but as you can see, the water levels dropping so dramatically. it's affected the economy of the area. there are not people coming out to visit and recreate as much here in echo bay eco bay is not the only spot falling victim to the low. a water lev

stuff on simon's to night reports from lake mead near hoover dam. ah. good. the expensive fountain water display in front of so called sin cities, icon, nikoto, bellagio, be a thing of the past soon. know at least not yet. but as the entire southwest region of the u. s. is facing a mega drought water or not having enough of it any more has become a big problem for las vegas and the entire state of nevada. we're meeting with christian gay like a community activists and senior representative of national environmental organization. the sierra club christian wants to show us a place called echo bay, within what is known as lake meet national recreational area, just a few miles east of las vegas. hardly anybody ever comes really to echo bay. unfortunately, it was a very popular spot, so popular, in fact, it had an airport. but as you can see, the water levels dropping so dramatically. it's affected the economy of the area. there are not people coming out to visit and recreate as much here in eco bay. eco bay is not the only spot falling victim to the lower water l

a water level tear lake meet created by hoover dam is the largest men made water reservoir in the u. s. in terms of water capacity, however, the reservoir is water level has dropped visibly by unpack then to the mountains in recent years. as christina top the flight attendant from germany visits hoover dam, she is alarmed by what she observed. i think the bell rang long time ago unless it should keep on ringing and something has to be done about it. absolutely. it is very dangerously low and we actually up a flight school. so we flew over here days ago, and just the seat also from above. 40000 feet. i can show you pictures. it's unbelievable meats, water level, shrink by a whopping 150 plus feet in the last 40 years, an ever growing so called white beth top ring here and at other reservoirs would have devastating effects for all u. s. states in the lower colorado river basin for tens of millions of people and hundreds of thousands of businesses in nevada, arizona, california, and even in mexico, we are on track to see additional drops in the water levels up to the point to where it's

this was the fbi time of j edgar hoover.story, talk about how you got involved, and that how you got involved with the weather underground, became the leader of weather underground. bernadine: it is astonishing, what can i say, there is no such thing as replacing angela davis on any list, anything. she is a comrade, colleagues, sister, and friend. her pointing out that we didn't have the language in 1969, 19 70's, not just about language, but the connective tissue of the word intersectionality, so you didn't have to choose between being a woman and being against the war in vietnam, that was insane, but the politics often made that true on the ground. her whole life, her whole career making that manifest form black lives matter, the activists of today, it is quite dramatic. you can see their wisdom, their ability to fight for unity, at the same time as they have disagreements and move in different ways. i am filled with admiration for this generation of activists, in awe. trying to tag along and keep up with them on the stree

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

even though he had the hoover institution in stanford which is all about free markets, hoover himself-- hoover took the tax rate from 25% to 65%. i know there was restricted tariffs during these republican years, but not like that. it was a terrible mistake. it turned what was a modest downturn a major depression, than fdr, in my view, made it worse because he kept raising taxes and kept regulating and kept controlling prices. i am reading these books and i like to productize about these books. i love the gilded age stuff personally. if i had to do it over again, you could kind of plot me -- i would have liked to have been -- i don't know, grover cleveland, a democrat, is one of my favorite presidents. he was a pro gold, spending cutter, would not fathom the income tax, from buffalo, new york. he was governor of new york and president all in about six or eight years. he is the only guy to come back and be president again, i think. i like grover cleveland. i like u.s. grant. i like warren harding. i especially like calvin coolidge. i like ronald reagan. and i like donald trump. host: w

for nbc's scott cohen standing by the hoover dam in arizona with the very latest. so, scott. whatever expert saying about this drought? the impact on the region's power supply? >> about yes. it is one of many impacts from the drought, alex. hoover dam is erupting anytime, but it is also breathtaking these days because of how starkly it shows what is going on with the drought and with climate change. you can see the big and take ours behind me, that is where they get the water from the hydroelectric plant. to see how much of them are exposed. that is not normal, and it is not good. you can see it even more when you get out of the water, bruce nelson, who runs the marina, the closest marina to the, damn took us out on the tour. and you can see those so-called bat rings, where you can see how, just how far, the lake and the reservoir for the hoover dam has fallen from its peak. >> this is a flushing reservoir, so we are used to seeing it fold. 1000, two, hundred 26 feet above sea level. we have seen low levels, this is a lot we have. seen but we've seen it all. so we are used to

nbc news scott cohn is joining us now from the hoover dam. scott, take us there.at we are seeing, yasmin is just a vivid illustration of how bad this lake drought is. how serious the problem of climate change is in general. those behind me are the intense generators were takes in the water for this hydro plants. you could see how much of the towers are exposed. if we were at the high water level you would only see the tops of them. there you see, this is not normal! yes, recreation has gotten a lot more difficult on the reservoir on lake mead. not impossible though, you can still get out there on a bow. there you start to see more of what is going on out there. the so-called bath ring which represents the difference between high water and where we are at now. it is about 200 feet now. this is getting close to where it could be a serious problem. >> the water goes down too much, water can't flows through the dam. they can't feed water to the down river communities for agriculture and water, that's an issue. they are also not building water through the dam, which is

boats as old as the hoover dam are now back in the sun. and now, even bodies are being found. drowning victims, in some cases even murder victims. some experts estimate there could be dozens, maybe even a hundred more to be found >> i think giving closure to families who lost loved ones on the lake and solving old mob murders, these are impacts of climate change i never saw coming >> reporter: nevada officials are literally seeing climate change happen on their watch >> the one-degree increase means 4% more water can actually get held up in the atmosphere and the atmosphere is continuing to get thirstier. the atmosphere is sucking the landscape dry. >> reporter: jenner and his wife are taking new work, relocating the marina as the water falls >> we pick up the anchor blocks and move them >> reporter: how often have you had to move them so far? >> we've moved thousands, thousands of feet. >> reporter: as the heat keeps coming, lake mead will reveal more and more. >> who knows what will pop up >> reporter: jake ward, nbc news, lake mead, nevada >>> when we come back, leaping off

at the moment, turbines inside the hoover dam are only spinning at 30% capacity.hought would be under water are emerging once upon a time, divers would dive down to this. now i'm standing about 150 feet above the lake boats as old as the hoover dam are now in the sun and bodies are even found. >> it's even murder victims. there could be dozens, even a hundred more to be found >> i think giving closure to families who've lost loved ones on the lake and solving old mob murders, these are impafkts climate change i never thought i'd see. the one degree increase immedmeans the atmosphere gets thirstier. the atmosphere is sucking it drive. >> reporter: jenner and his wife used to take tourists diving, but now they've taken new work, reloca relocating the marina as the water falls. we've moved thousands, thousands of feet e. >> reporter: lake mead will keep revealing more and more. jake ward, nbc news, lake mead, nevada >> a fascinating story seeing things like that all around world sunken ships, ancient buddhist temples revealing themselves >> such a shame that we're he

it manages lake powell and lake mead and the hoover dam. theoretically, they have the access and ability to take steps to not deliver water. the question is whether they have the legal authority to do it. for a hundred years, we've been making decisions about how to share river water consensus and negotiation. my bet is that the bureau of reclamation is reluctant to depart from that tradition. host: you think states will have a say. guest: yes. states are trying hard to get to some kind of agreement that we could live with. no one will like it, but there is an agreement out there. it could result in leaving the system in 2023. it will help to has a federal agency threaten to take action because that is a great motivator for the parties and negotiations. host: what about the legality of this agreement? a pact between states? individuals who have the rights to water. what about the legality of that? they have any say? guest: that's what i was saying. there are water stakeholders that have high priority or in some cases low priority entitlemen

the drought threatening hydropower at hoover hoover dam, now approaching itst now approaching its lowest point point to be able to produce power. upstream at lake powell, water levels just 44 feet away from stopping hydropower genera. >> crops are dying. >> reporter: for the first time ever, the with eur of reclamatin announcing a tier 2 water shortage for the colorado river. the colorado river. >> it's killing us. >> reporter: is raising alarms in several states. looking to ct up to 25% of river water usage. >> i drive around and look at empty canals. literally, i burso tears. it's just such a hopeles. such a hopeless situation. >> reporter: across the west and and south, 40 million americansr heat alerts. if it's hot now, scientists warn it could get worse in the next 30 years. morn 100 million americans could face face a heat index among 125 degrees over the hottest days oe year. a study found an extreme heat that would stretch from texas to the great lakes. > >> first alert weather day. dans heat. solano county is one of the in list hotspots. >> that is where >> that is where kpix 5'

>> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... and by... corporate funding is provided by... >> governor christine todd whitman, welcome to "firing line." >> oh, it's good to be with you, margaret. >> y are a former two-term republican governor of the state of new jersey, you are a pro-choice republican, and you have long advocated for moderate positions within the republican party, from social issues scientific positions, including a time where you served in the cabinet for george w. bush as the epa administrator. >> mm-hmm. >> the supreme court has just ruled in a case that overturned roe v. wade, ending nearly 50 years of federal abortion rights in this country. did you, governor, ever think you would see this day? >> well, i'm afraid i saw it coming. i was afraid it was going to happen, and, obviously, when we had the leaked version, it was pretty -- it was pretty certain. but you could see the court starting to move in this direction. if you looked at the cases they pulled up, they seemed to want to make this kind of a decision. of cou