President Herbert Hoover
On the night of March 4, 1929, as the festivities of Inauguration Day faded and Washington’s elite drifted from ballroom to ballroom, Herbert Clark Hoover sat for a quiet moment in the Red Room of the White House, staring into a vase of white roses. The celebrations had been grand: bands, parades, speeches, dignitaries—all hailing the nation’s new president, a man whose life story seemed almost mythic. A self-made millionaire, a global humanitarian who had fed millions during and after the Great War, a brilliant engineer, an organizer known worldwide as “The Great Humanitarian,” Hoover appeared to represent everything the optimistic, technologically driven America of the late 1920s wanted to believe about itself.
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