Tag: Herbert Hoover

Three presidents who embarked on remarkable adventures after they left office

Emily Hallas · December 30, 2024 6:00 am

Trump hopes economic ‘crash’ will happen within next year

Rachel Schilke · January 9, 2024 9:11 am

Beltway Confidential

Individualism fosters virtue in ways that government action cannot

David Davenport · September 15, 2020 4:33 pm

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Rugged American individualism comes to the rescue

David Davenport · April 9, 2020 8:31 pm

This is an undated photo of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Campobello Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada.

Revisiting the old New Deal

John Graber · June 5, 2019 6:26 pm

U.S. President Herbert Hoover, third from left, poses with his family at the Washington community Christmas tree after lighting the tree on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1931. From left to right are, Allan Hoover, son; first lady Lou Henry Hoover; the President; daughter-in-law Margaret Hoover and her husband, Herbert Hoover Jr., and Colonel James A. Ulio, aid to the president. The grandchildren are Herbert III, known as Pete, left, and Peggy Ann, holding the president's hand.

Beltway Confidential

The first White House Christmas during the Great Depression was bad enough — then the flames started

J. Mark Powell · December 22, 2018 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Thank goodness we ended Prohibition

Quin Hillyer · December 5, 2018 7:20 pm

Herbert Hoover: The Engineer-President

alonzo-hamby · March 9, 2018 6:50 am

President Trump entered office with the most ostentatious promises, but, ironically, his tenure could end up remembered more like Silent Calvin Coolidge than Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Making presidents less great again

Washington Examiner · February 19, 2018 5:01 am

There is much to learn from former President Herbert Hoover's successes and, if we are wise enough, from his failures. If not, we will stumble badly once again before we figure out who we will become. (Salena Zito)

Herbert Hoover’s lesson for today’s America

Salena Zito · September 3, 2017 4:01 am

The Rather Brief History of the President as Healer in Chief

Philip Terzian · August 31, 2017 2:45 pm

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Presidential vacations: Before there was Camp David, there was Camp Hoover

J. Mark Powell · August 16, 2017 11:00 pm