President Hoover

Today we went to West Branch, IA, to visit the Hoover Historic Site and Museum. There's a lot we didn't know about him: early on he was a very successful mining engineer and became quite wealthy; he was a great humanitarian during and after both world wars; he warned about stock market problems before the big crash, yet was blamed for it as president.

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