Comments on: Herbert Hoover by William E. Leuchtenburg

By: Bob Timmermann

Bob Timmermann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:12:41 +0000

Thank you for the correction. I modified the paragraph to what I believe is more accurate.

By: Dar

Dar — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:44:18 +0000

“Despite his wide travels in the world, Hoover was not an expert on foreign policy. He hoped to ease tensions between the United States and Latin America, but ended up sending troops in to prop up a right wing regime in Nicaragua, setting up the long battle between the Somoza regime and the Sandinistas that would last until the Reagan years. ”

You seem to get your facts wrong, Hoover actually PULLED troops from there. He ended America’s interventionism and imperialism in Central America,until it was later revived by the post-war Presidents.

By: Bob Hendley

Bob Hendley — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:47:49 +0000

Hoover also helped to create the “other” Hoover Institute, the Food Research Institute at Stanford.

By: Prescott Chris

Prescott Chris — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:41:02 +0000

My favorite part of this write-up is how the reference to Stanford University links to the U.C. Berkeley website.

By: Francie Curran

Francie Curran — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:18:18 +0000

What a shame he couldn’t work well with others with all the skill sets he had. Thanks for a great bio.

By: Bob Timmermann

Bob Timmermann — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:26:31 +0000

Hoover wanted to be reelected in 1932 because he believed he was the guy for the job. He also sent out feelers to be nominated in 1936 and 1940, but the rest of the Republican Party didn’t want him. Hoover might actually have fared worse than Alf Landon in 1936.

Also, the Republicans were becoming more isolationist and Hoover wasn’t of that bent.

By: Michael Timmermann

Michael Timmermann — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:23:43 +0000

Did Hoover consider not running for re-election similar to LBJ? Was he really that sure he could beat FDR, or was he lacking in self-awareness?

By: Bill Deane

Bill Deane — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:06:54 +0000

I may be the youngest person alive to have corresponded with Herbert Hoover. At age seven, with the help of my mother, I wrote to Hoover wishing him a happy 90th birthday. He wrote back a note of thanks less than a month before his death.