Herbert Hoover Quotes
If the world is to keep the peace, then we must keep the peace with dictatorships as well as popular governments.
Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964, 31st President of the United States (Republican, IA), 1938
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The Republican controlled Senate had turned down the ratification of the League of Nations presented by Democratic President Wilson, and looked like they would turn down any international treaty even if presented by a Republican President. This statement allowed the treaty ratification by only a few votes. However, after that the Senate turned down our participation in the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. See {640099}.
This is one of the earliest instances in which formal American foreign policy called for aggressively preventing other nations from war. This speech was audio recorded -- quite unusual for the time -- and can be heard to this day.
The Russians were breaking diplomatic relations with Israel.
During the 1987 U.S. - Russian summit meeting in Washington DC police cracked down to scatter the prostitutes who usually worked the area frequented by the summit participants: a prostitute's advocacy group
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician, businessman, and engineer, who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. Before serving as president, Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration, and served as the third U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
