She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

Sent to Montpelier by Secretary Herbert Hoover, Red Cross Aide Reuben Sleight had been killed, and his pilot, Lt. Franklin Wolfe, badly injured.

J. Edgar Hoover, who had instructed the FBI to keep extensive secret files on him, tried to end his United States residency.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover opposed the internment, not on constitutional grounds, but because he believed that the most likely spies had already been arrested by the FBI shortly after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hoover, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two Presidents to redistribute their salary ( President Kennedy was the other ; he donated all his paychecks to charity ).

The Hoovers had two sons, Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. ( 1903 – 69 ) and Allan Henry Hoover ( 1907 – 93 ).

It recalled the nickname he had acquired in the Australian outback: " Hail Columbia " Hoover.

Sixty-six years after opening the mine in 1897, Hoover still had a partial share in the Sons of Gwalia mines when it finally closed in 1963, just one year before the former President's death in New York City in 1964.

Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.

It was determined that Hoover had given extremely detailed maps of the area to Stanford University.

Also, Hoover confessed that he could not run for a party whose only member in his boyhood home had been the town drunk.

Although he had personal misgivings about the capability of the nominee, Warren G. Harding, Hoover publicly endorsed him and made two speeches for Harding.

Coolidge had been reluctant to choose Hoover as his successor ; on one occasion he remarked that " for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice — all of it bad.

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.

Hoover mediated between Chile and Peru to solve a conflict on the sovereignty of Arica and Tacna, that in 1883 by the Treaty of Ancón had been awarded to Chile for ten years, to be followed by a plebiscite that had never happened.

Hoover had long been a proponent of the concept that public-private cooperation was the way to achieve high long-term growth.

When Hoover took over the Bureau of Investigation, it had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents.

Hoover said the Bureau had " much more important functions " than arresting bookmakers and gamblers.

In 1956, several years before he targeted King, Hoover had a public showdown with T. R. M.

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.

Hoover learned of the trip and negotiated with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to revoke Chaplin's re-entry permit.

Though he did not attend high school, the young Hoover attended night school and learned bookkeeping, typing, and mathematics.

Hoover and his wife learned Mandarin Chinese while he worked in China and used it during his tenure at the White House when they wanted to foil eavesdroppers.

After an unsuccessful stint working on a sheep ranch, he found work with a hunter and trapper turned rancher named Jake Hoover, who owned a ranch in the Judith Basin, and from whom Russell learned much about the ways of the west.

* Hoover ( seal ), a harbor seal that learned to imitate basic human speech

Bob Hoover learned to fly at Nashville's Berry Field while working at a local grocery store to pay for the flight training.

While a judge, he also served as an active member of a blue-ribbon " National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement ," better known as the " Wickersham Commission ," appointed by President Herbert Hoover to assess the lessons learned from prohibition, among other things.

* Interview with the Apollo 16 Astronauts ( 28 June 1972 ) from the Commonwealth Club of California Records at the Hoover Institution Archives.

* 1927 – First distance public television broadcast ( from Washington, D. C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).

presented a staged concert from April 8 through April 11, 2010, with Sutton Foster as Nurse Fay Apple, Donna Murphy as Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, and Raul Esparza as Hapgood, with direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw.

This led Herbert Hoover to appoint two commissions, including one headed by a former US governor of the Philippines William Cameron Forbes, which criticized the exclusion of Haitians from positions of authority in the government and constabulary, now known as the Garde d ' Haïti.

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.

By 1914, Hoover stood eventually to obtain what he later described as " a large fortune from these Russian industries, probably more than is good for anybody ".

When World War I began in August 1914, Hoover helped organize the return of 120, 000 Americans from Europe.

" Hoover liked to say that the difference between dictatorship and democracy was simple: dictators organize from the top down, democracies from the bottom up.

For the next two years, Hoover worked 14-hour days from London, administering the distribution of over two million tons of food to nine million war victims.

With help from supporters Senator Dill and Representative White, Hoover brought the issue of radio control to the Senate floor.

With help from Dill and White, Hoover promoted the Dill-White Bill which eventually would become the Radio Act of 1927.

With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Hoover set up health units to work in the flooded regions for a year.

On poverty, Hoover said that " Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation ", and promised, " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land ," but within months, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and the world's economy spiraled downward into the Great Depression.

He began withdrawing American troops from Nicaragua and Haiti ; he also proposed an arms embargo on Latin America and a one-third reduction of the world's naval power, which was called the Hoover Plan.

Lee Ohanian, from UCLA takes a controversial stance, arguing that Hoover adopted pro-labor policies after the 1929 stock market crash that " accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, causing what might otherwise have been a bad recession to slip into the Great Depression ".

Hoover encouraged NCC member banks to provide loans to smaller banks to prevent them from collapsing.

This program remained in place until it was revealed to the public in 1971, after the theft of many internal documents stolen from an office in Media, Pennsylvania, and was the cause of some of the harshest criticism of Hoover and the FBI.

COINTELPRO was first used to disrupt the Communist Party, where Hoover went after targets that ranged from suspected everyday spies to larger celebrity figures such as Charlie Chaplin who were seen as spreading Communist Party propaganda, and later organizations such as the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, Jr .' s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and others.

Hoover maintained strong support in Congress until his death at his Washington, D. C., home on May 2, 1972, from a heart attack attributed to cardio-vascular disease.

Tolson is buried a few yards away from Hoover in the Congressional Cemetery.

* Sound recordings from the Sir Karl R. Popper papers at the Hoover Institution Archives.

Also in March 1947, former U. S. President Herbert Hoover, in one of his reports from Germany, argued for a change in U. S. occupation policy, amongst other things stating: