The uncle of Hoover's mother was a Swiss honorary consul general to the United States.

Encouraged by his mother, Hatfield's first experience with politics came at the age of 10, when he campaigned in his neighborhood for President Herbert Hoover's 1932 re-election campaign.

As Commerce Secretary, Hoover also hosted two national conferences on street traffic, in 1924 and 1926 ( a third convened in 1930, during Hoover's presidency ).

Unlike many previous first ladies, when Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to the White House, she had already carved out her own reputation, having graduated from Stanford as the only woman in her class with a degree in geology.

Hack notes that Hoover was romantically linked to actress Dorothy Lamour in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and that after Hoover's death, Lamour did not deny rumors that she had had an affair with Hoover in the years between her two marriages.

In his 2004 study of the Lavender Scare, the historian David K. Johnson attacked the speculations about Hoover's homosexuality as relying on " the kind of tactics Hoover and the security program he oversaw perfected – guilt by association, rumor, and unverified gossip ”.

Research institutes were also set up under Hoover's influence, though inevitably there were to be clashes between the moving force, Hoover, and the host university.

As the year 1932 began, the Republican Party believed Hoover's protectionism and aggressive fiscal policies would solve the depression ; in any case, President Herbert Hoover controlled the party.

During Herbert Hoover's presidency, two additional secretaries to the president were added by Congress, one of whom Hoover designated as his Press Secretary.

Senator Leahy said that it was similar to J. Edgar Hoover's misuse of the FBI during the 1960s when Hoover hired citizens to spy on neighbors who were political protesters.

The Fossil post office was established on February 28, 1876, on Thomas Benton Hoover's ranch along Hoover Creek.

Originally Hoover's Food Center, it was then owned and operated by Concrete resident Hargus Hoover and his sons.

Playing on a stereotype of his famous TV role, he wore the trademark fedora and black suit when he made an appearance as guest host of a 1977 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live that included a spoof of Highway Patrol, featuring Dan Aykroyd, a longtime fan of the original show, and one in which he portrayed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, in a humorous send-up of Hoover's suspect sexuality.

When Hoover died, Tolson inherited his estate of $ 551, 000 and moved into his house ; he accepted the U. S. flag draped on Hoover's coffin.

According to Hoover's biographer Richard Hack, Hoover pursued Lamour romantically, but she was initially interested only in friendship with him.

Hoover and Lamour remained close friends to the end of Hoover's life, and after his 1972 death, Lamour did not deny rumors that she'd had an affair with him in the years after she divorced Herbie Kay.

Biographer of J. Edgar Hoover, Curt Gentry, says that Hoover's files had " numerous allegations that Spellman was a very active homosexual ".

Herbert Hoover's 1959 statement to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University on the purpose of the Hoover Institution continues to guide its ideology and define its activities:

Research institutes were also set up under Hoover's influence, though inevitably there were to be clashes between the moving force, Hoover, and the host university.

After the election, Roosevelt refused Hoover's requests for a meeting to come up with a joint program to stop the downward spiral and calm investors, claiming it would tie his hands, and as this " guaranteed that Roosevelt took the oath of office amid such an atmosphere of crisis that Hoover had become the most hated man in America.

He was at first an ardent supporter of President Herbert Hoover but he became discouraged by Hoover's intransigence and failures in dealing with the Great Depression.

* Hoover index, Edgar Malone Hoover's inequality measure

Without being specific, Littell tips off Hoover about the plot, but due to Hoover's non-committal response, Littell surmises that there is a second assassination plot in the works, which will take place several days later in Dallas.

There is also a recreation of one of the living room of Hoover's Waldorf-Astoria suite in the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.

Roberts was appointed to the Supreme Court by Herbert Hoover after Hoover's nomination of John J. Parker was defeated by the Senate.

* Wall Street Journal – ' Hoover's Institution ', Laurence H. Silberman, July 20, 2005

* J. Edgar Hoover's Watching You – slideshow by Life magazine

* Royal Philips Electronics NV – Fact Sheet – Hoover's Online

:* " Part 2: Hoover's Progressive Assault on Business ", July 2004, pp. 10 – 20.

Hoover's plan for a reduced military had been rebuffed – albeit gently.

On May 7, 1930, Herbert Hoover's nomination of John J. Parker for the Supreme Court was rejected by a vote of 39 – 41.

In 1918 – 1919 he was in Paris as legal adviser for the American Relief Administration, Hoover's agency which distributed food to war-torn Europe.

William DeWitt Mitchell ( September 9, 1874 – August 24, 1955 ) was appointed to the position of U. S. Solicitor General by Calvin Coolidge on June 4, 1925, which he held until he was appointed to the position of U. S. Attorney General for the entirety of Herbert Hoover's Presidency.

Irwin served on the executive committee of Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium in 1914 – 1915 and was chief of the foreign department of George Creel's Committee on Public Information in 1918.

** Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited – Fact Sheet – Hoover's Online

* Hoover's – Etrade Financial Corporation Company Profile

The countercultural movement was also under covert assault by J. Edgar Hoover's infamous " Counter Intelligence Program " ( COINTELPRO ), but in some countries it was other youth groups that were a threat.

* Nixon ( 1995 ), Joaquin ( Hoover's servant )

Factors weighing against them included their apparent presence in Kansas City at the time, eyewitness identifications ( which have been contested ), Richetti's fingerprint said to have been recovered from a beer bottle at Miller's hideout, an underworld account naming Floyd and Richetti as the gunmen, and Hoover's firm advocacy of their guilt.

Other high profile events hosted at Stanford Stadium include Herbert Hoover's acceptance speech for the 1928 Republican Presidential nomination, and international football matches for the 1984 Summer Olympics ( as one of three venues outside Southern California for that Olympiad ), the 1994 FIFA World Cup, and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Notable early instances of use included the Battle of Hoover's Gap ( where Col. John T. Wilder's " Lightning Brigade " effectively demonstrated the firepower of repeaters ), and the Gettysburg Campaign, where two regiments of the Michigan Brigade ( under Brig.

As secretary of agriculture after 1925 ( after the death of the senior Wallace ), Jardine made proposals that offered relief for farmers while preserving a free market ; these passed into law as President Herbert Hoover's Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, too far into the worsening farm crisis to succeed with the onset of the Great Depression.

* Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock ' n ' Roll song ; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's F. B. I., and a Cast of Millions ; and Introducing, for the First Time Anywhere, the Actual Dirty Lyrics, ( Hyperion ), 1992.