WEST BRANCH, Iowa — The Hoover Presidential Foundation announced that the traveling exhibit "Hoover on the Road" will be part of the 2025 Hoover's Hometown Days on August 9 in West Branch. This ...

WEST BRANCH, Iowa (KCRG) - The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum gets an average of 30,000 to 35,000 visitors each year. But for the next year and a half, it won’t be getting any visitors ...

Part I. Before the crash -- To the White House : Herbert Hoover, August 1927-March 1929 / Donald R. McCoy -- Before the crash : Hoover's first eight months in the Presidency / David B. Bruner -- Part ...

Happy birthday to the only Iowa native to become President of the United States! Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), the 31st president, was born in West Branch August 10, 1874. Flanked by two Omaha ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Former President Herbert Hoover described the federal government as having “the instincts of a vegetable ...

Part I. The rise and fall of Herbert Hoover -- He did not choose -- A political diptych -- Flashpoints, and a landslide -- "Hoover the silent" -- Bright with hope -- The Wall Street Frankenstein -- ...

We begin with Hoover’s humble beginnings, rise as the first president born west of the Mississippi, and extensive international business and humanitarian efforts. Key questions include the ...

Once again, President Obama dodged the key fiscal-cliff issues at a campaign rally/press conference Wednesday morning. Campaign-style, he argued that the middle-class tax cuts (below $250,000) must be ...

Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, resided at the Georgian spread in Surrey, England, in 1902 while he worked for Bewick, Moreing & Co., a London-based mining firm. According to the listing, which ...

Jimmy Carter didn’t just lose his bid for reelection in 1980. He was trounced. His 9.7 point loss in the popular vote to Ronald Reagan was the second worst defeat suffered by an incumbent president in ...