Margaret Hoover
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The David Frum Show · Was Herbert Hoover America’s Most Misunderstood President? · 5 Aug 2026
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Well, I mean, that's the entire premise.
You've summarized it so clearly.
And
Look, there are 16 official presidential libraries in the National Archives and Record Administration.
And the reason Herbert Hoover, along with Harry Truman, in conjunction, sort of began to sort of accepted funds for a library from the federal government was
was particularly because Hoover had felt and always felt that the gifts that were given to him when he was president of the United States and the papers that consisted of the operations of the presidency were the possession of the American people.
Prior to the Presidential Records Act, Hoover had actually collected all of his and had them on display at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a public policy think tank that he had invented in 1919.
at the end of World War I because nobody was collecting the documents from the Treaty of Versailles and he thought they would be rather important for the future.
But that said, there is this premise that Hoover believed deeply and that every president until now, with perhaps the exception of Nixon, believed that these papers, they belonged to the American people because
The institution of the presidency is only bestowed on individuals because of the faith of the American people, and thus they belong to the American people.
Many also donated them to universities that they were associated with.
Thomas Jefferson's were at the University of Virginia.
George Washington donated his.
There's a long tradition of universities holding these papers.
And I do think there was a sense amongst the founding that the papers were part of establishing a precedent for a self-governing republic.
And so they ought to be on display.
I mean, private matters are private matters, but any matter that the president assumes in the context of his responsibility to the people of the United States and in the context of leading the country, there is a really strong sense of responsibility towards the American people so they could establish precedence.
And that has been the case, I think, until the 20th century.
I would suggest he still is one of the greatest Americans of the 20th century.
And I think the dust hasn't settled in terms of history really reckoning with the scope of Hoover's full legacy.
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