Herbert Hoover Quotes
I have outlined to Senator Harding several constructive proposals ... and it remains for him to make the decision. [Harding accepted Hoover's conditions.]
President-elect Harding had sounded out Herbert Hoover's interest in becoming Secretary of Commerce. At the time, the Commerce Department was of relatively little importance, housing only a few scientific bureaus. Hoover placed conditions upon his acceptance whereby the department, and he, would be given much more authority and funding. Word of the negotiations leaked and Hoover was asked if he was placing conditions upon the President:
Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964, 31st President of the United States (Republican, IA), Quoted in New York Times, February 25, 1921
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In 1963 the White House Chief of Staff, Walter Jenkins, was arrested for homosexual solicitation at the YMCA. Johnson fired Jenkins but was personally very supportive to an old friend and advisor. However, the story was the major media story of the time. Johnson was preparing a major speech and hoped to get the Jenkins story off the front page.
During the Republican National Convention of 1920, when the delegates were deadlocked between four candidates, Daugherty told the press:
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At the beginning of his Presidency Roosevelt urged Congress to disarm. A few years later he was urging heavy expenditures for armaments and Congress was then reluctant.
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician, businessman, and engineer, who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. Before serving as president, Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration, and served as the third U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
