I got interested in Hoover in 5th grade when I visited hsi presidential library in West Branch, Iowa.
Another reason is that he is vilified by the left, so I wanted to know a lot about him to disarm their arguments. 
Seriously, Herbert Hoover is a better person than John Kerry or Hillary Clinton who constantly attack him.
I'll be honest...I always put him in the worst President's column with Harding and Buchanan.
That's your choice. If I enter politcs and go to Congress, I will introduce a bill making a Herbert Hoover Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The only thing I knew about him was the Great Depression and record job loss. Never looked at anything else, really. Perhaps I should read up on him since he might not be that bad.
I wrote this back in April:
Herbert Hoover was a big hearted man who was always open to help the poor and weak. He is known as "The Great Humanitarian" and "The Defender of Innocent Children." He fed millions of Bulgarian Children in the CRB Relief Program. He said "Damn the fortune," and went off to help children. Does this sound like a bad man?
Durring the depression Hoover started the Farm Board to help farmers. He started the Federal Reconstruction and Finance Comitee to make sure that men like Henry Ford did not lower workers wages. He encouraged the Red Cross to feed the starving and even donated his own money to their cause.
In 1932 two children from Detroit had hitchiked to Washington to get their father out of prison. Their father had been arrested because he couldn't pay his mortgage. Hoover was so touched by the boy's treck that he freed their father, payed their mortgage, and gave them some money to help them get food and clothing. This man was a caring, big hearted, warm, and great person.
We in America today overlook the great man Herbert Hoover was because we are too blind to see that this man, born in a three room house in West Branch, Iowa, is one of the greatest men whoever lived in the United States.
Herbert Hoover was a great ex-President. He helped feed millions of Finnish people, out of his own pocket, when the Soviet-Finnish War broke out. After World War II Hoover's humanitarian work was not over. Prtesident Truman sent him on a mission to feed Europe. He was able to save millions, if not hundreds of milllions, of Eurpeans from starving to death. After JFK was shot, Hoover sent a telegraph to LBJ saying, "I am open from any job from Presidential advisor to Senate page boy." Hoover wanted to help Johnson in this moment of crisis.
In 1953 Hoover was appointed by President Eisenhower to reorganize the executive branch. The "Hoover Commison" saved taxpayers millions by trimming the Federal Government.
Herbert Hoover sadly died in 1964. The entire nation greived the death of a man who had been such a philanthropist that he was hated. The nation cried and wept for a man who had lived the American Dream. It is Hoover who should be honored, and not insulted.
