Herbert Hoover

I'm going to visit the Herbert Hoover museum next week. This is part of my See All the Presidents' Graves tour. Why do that? Someone told me they were doing that and I thought that was ridiculous. Later I thought, hey that's kind of awesome. At the time I think I had seen 5 or so. When I got in the 20's just by going to historical sites, I thought, I should go for it. I've only got a few to go. There is Herbert, T. Roosevelt, Coolidge, Pierce, and L.B. Johnson. Of course George Bush Sr. recently got added to the list. If I think about it there might be others, but that is about it. Fun fact I thought of a while ago, and this list reminds me of it - There's about 25 years of presidents with two oo's in their last name - Coolidge, Hoover, and F. Roosevelt. Coincidence? Yes, probably.

Herb Hoover got ripped off real bad. He was a success in everything he ever did - engineer, secretary of commerce, humanitarian; except being president. He came in and bam, the stock market goes belly up, and we're in the great depression. He was put in charge of helping the starving of Europe and Russia after WWI. One of his biographers said he probably saved more lives than anyone in the history of the world. Come on, how do you not get a lot of points for that? But he doesn't. All you hear about with him is the great depression. Probably no one was going to pull us out of that for a while, even FDR. John Quincy Adams was the same way. Maybe the smartest guy to be president, but jerkface Andrew Jackson made sure he couldn't accomplish anything while he was in office. So, I'll have more to report on Herbie in a couple weeks.