Herbert Hoover

<p><span class="deck">The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">By freight train, on foot, and in commandeered trucks, thousands of unemployed veterans descended on a nervous capital at the depth of the Depression—and were run out of town by Army bayonets</span> </span></p>

<p>The American system of choosing a President has not worked out badly, far as it may be from the Founding Fathers’ vision of a natural aristocracy </p>

<p><span class="deck"> When up on the roof there arose such a clatter That Herbert rushed out to see what was the matter</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">New York to Los Angeles in an unheard-of 48 hours! And what a way to go—luxuriously appointed planes, meals served aloft, and a window seat for every passenger</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The American Experience With Foreign Aid</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">How the novelty item of 1920 became the world-straddling colossus of 1940</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Starting with 30 “liberated” rifles, Augusto Sandino forced American troops out of Nicaragua in 1933.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The crisis swept over France and Germany and Britain alike, and they all nearly foundered. Now more than ever, it is important to remember that it didn’t just happen here.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It depends on whose interpretation of both history and the current crisis you believe. For one of America’s most prominent supply-side economists, the answer is yes.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On the 20th anniversary of Watergate, a recently discovered diary reveals a similar conspiracy four decades earlier.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">They’ve all had things to say about their fellow chief executives. Once in a great while, one was even flattering.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A long-time Republican-party insider and close student of its past discusses how the party has changed over the years, for better and for worse, and where it may be headed.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">And how it grew, and grew, and grew…</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An overheard remark sent the author off on a years-long quest to discover the truth about a man whose power to inspire both rage and reverence has only grown after his death.</span></p>

<p>You've always heard that Harding was the worst president. Sex in the White House. Bribes on Capitol Hill. Was he really that bad?</p>

<p><span class="deck">Americans won’t choose a president who chides them.</span></p>

<p>The pitfalls of protectionism</p>

<p><span class="deck">For all his previous successes, President Herbert Hoover proved incapable of arresting the economic free fall of the Depression— or soothing the fears of a distressed nation.</span></p>

<p>When former President Hoover was secretary of commerce under Harding and Coolidge, he was called upon to cope with a new and perplexing activity.</p>

<p>We republish an essay President Hoover wrote for <em>American Heritage</em> in 1958 in which he recounted his experiences as an aide to Woodrow Wilson at the peace talks after World War I. This important first-person narrative candidly details the difficulties that Wilson faced in what Hoover called “the greatest drama of intellectual leadership in all history.”</p>

<p>American volunteers distributing food to starving Belgians witnessed the dramatic deportations, when an estimated 120,000 men were taken to factories in Germany.</p>

<p>In the largest protest of the Depression, World War I veterans converged on Washington, DC seeking justice. They were met with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas.</p>