Sunday, September 3, 2017

Herbert Hoover's lesson for today's America

Via Billy

There is much to learn from former President Herbert Hoover's successes and, if we are wise enough, from his failures. If not, we will stumble badly once again before we figure out who we will become. (Salena Zito)

It is a testimony to the promise of our country to stand inside the home of young Herbert Hoover. The scope of where the Hoover family began, lived and ended each day can be observed in the blink of an eye.

One room served as a bedroom for the future president along with his parents and two siblings. The other room was their living room, dining room, and kitchen. The rooms are literally side-by-side.

They had little, they soon had less, yet Hoover persisted.

"This cottage where I was born is physical proof of the unbounded opportunity of American life," Hoover once wrote.

It's hard to disagree.

Few today know much about the poor little Quaker boy who was orphaned at age nine, separated from his siblings, and sent off to Oregon to be raised by an uncle; most students learn in school that he was America's president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that he failed to right the country as it slipped, then fell, into the Great Depression.

2 comments:

  1. I live about 45-minutes from the Hoover Home. And have been there many times. When compared to modern Presidential Libraries it is shocking how modest it is. There is real history being taught, when you view the house and walk the grounds. The modern monstrosities are nothing but temples to ego and narcissism.

    Badger

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    1. The modern monstrosities are nothing but temples to ego and narcissism.


      Thanks and I am sure.

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