Hoover, Lou Henry, 2, 73, 79, 87, 128–29, 171, 194, 197, 203, 204, 278, 293–94, 399
background of, 42, 44
Boxer Rebellion and, 69–71
in Burma, 81
children of, 77–78
in China, 62–65, 67–71
Coolidge, Grace and, 168, 169
death of, 348–51
as First Lady, 63, 68, 208, 349, 351
funeral and burial of, 350–51
house designed by, 133
in London, 75, 78
personality of, 42–44, 63, 349
philanthropy of, 64
physical appearance of, 43, 349
relationship with Hoover, 42–45, 44, 55, 61–62, 83, 84, 89
religion and, 45, 62
as speaker, 106, 208
wedding of, 62
in World War I, 93, 115
as writer, 63, 68, 88–90
Hoover, Merlin, 18
Hoover, Mildred Brooke, 55, 79
Hoover, Tad, 7, 9, 10, 14–18, 23, 50, 52, 55–56, 58–60, 64, 75, 79, 83, 87, 292, 389
Hoover, Wally, 18
Hoover Commission, 5, 369–70, 385, 386
Hoover Dam, 155, 174, 175, 222, 364
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 345, 374, 400
Hoover Presidential Library, 63, 350
Hopper, Edward, 75
House, Edward, 104–5, 109
Houston, David, 109
Hughes, Charles Evans, 166, 223–24, 335
Human Events journal, 352
Humphrey, George, 385, 386
Hungarian Revolution, 389
Hungary, 126–27
Hunt, Edward Eyre, 99
Hurley, Patrick J., 210, 227, 235, 268, 269, 280–81
Hyde, Arthur M., 210, 235, 239
Ickes, Harold, 175, 364
Influenza pandemic, 120
Insull, Samuel, 221
Insurance companies, 216, 217
International cartels, 177–78
Invisible hand, 157
Irtysh, Siberia, 86
Irwin, Will, 96, 190
Ivan the Terrible, 319
Izaak Walton League, 176
Jackson, Andrew, 305
Janin, Louis, 50–52
Japan, 117–18, 248–50, 290, 361
Jardine, William M., 157
Jefferson, Thomas, 25, 358, 378
Johnson, Hiram, 136, 139, 140, 175, 224, 354
Johnson, Lyndon, 397, 398
Jordan, David Starr, 26, 28, 29, 37, 87
Joseph, Archduke, 127
Joslin, Theodore, 275, 284
Kaiping mines, China, 66, 68, 73
Kalgoorlie, Australia, 57
Kellogg, Vernon, 103, 144
Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, 248
Kennedy, David, 232
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 397
Kennedy, John F., 202, 395–97
Kennedy, John Jr., 397
Kennedy, Joseph P., 218, 326, 359, 379, 396
Kennedy, Rose, 397
Kenyon, William S., 158
Keynes, John Maynard, 3, 219
Kitchener, Herbert, 99
Klein, Julius, 160
Knowland, William, 355, 377
Korean War, 370, 375, 376, 387
Ku Klux Klan, 192
Kun, Béla, 126, 127
Kwang Tsu, Emperor, 66, 69
Kyshtym, Russia, 86
La Follette, Robert Jr., 224, 256, 262, 275
La Follette, Robert Sr., 136, 191
La Guardia, Fiorello, 256
Labor issues, 135, 199, 212, 254, 264, 363, 371–72
Lamont, Robert P., 210, 235
Landon, Alf, 305, 308–11, 330, 333–35, 339, 352, 369, 373, 379
Lane, Franklin, 104, 109
Latin America, 4, 205–6, 323, 363–64
Laval, Pierre, 247–48
League of Nations, 133, 135–36, 140, 199, 248, 249, 250, 315, 318, 341, 344, 346, 353, 354
League to Enforce Peace, 136
Leavitt, Cornelius Van Ness, 64
Leavitt, May Hoover, 7, 15, 16, 18, 23, 50, 52, 55–56, 58, 64
Lee, George L., 151
Lee, Robert E., 25
Lend-lease, 322
Lenin, Vladimir, 141, 143, 148, 319
Lenroot, Irvine, 179, 180
Leopold II, King of Belgium, 74
Lever bill, 110
Lewis, John L., 282
Lincoln, Abraham, 25, 222, 272, 313, 330, 373
Lindbergh, Charles A., 172, 184, 278
Lindgren, Waldemar, 39, 41, 45, 46, 49, 51
Lippmann, Walter, 138
Litvinov, Maxim, 143
Lloyd George, David, 99, 100, 106, 123
Lodge, Henry Cabot Jr., 104, 109, 125, 135–36, 380, 381, 394
Logan Act of 1799, 103
Lohof, Bruce Alan, 184
London Naval Disarmament Conference of 1930, 219, 244
London Naval Treaty, 234, 245
Loring, W. J., 82
Lowden, Frank, 140, 192–94
Luce, Clare Booth, 383
Ludlow, Louis, 324
Luther, Martin, 88
Lyons, Eugene, 90
Lytton Commission, 249–50
MacArthur, Douglas, 268–69, 370–71, 380, 384, 385, 396
MacDonald, Ramsay, 244
MacLafferty, James H., 188
Manchuria, 67, 248–50, 290
Marne, Battle of the, 103
Marshall, George C., 366–68
Marshall Plan, 367, 369, 375
Martin, Joseph, 369, 380
Mayer, Louis B., 191
McClellan, John, 386
McCone, John, 396
McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 373–74
McKinley, William, 139, 252
McNab, John L., 194
McNary-Haugen Bill, 156, 189, 193
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 170–71
Meller-Zakomelsky, Baron, 85, 86
Mellon, Andrew, 153, 155, 157, 178, 193, 203, 209, 211, 219
Memoirs (Hoover), 24, 74
Meuse-Argonne sector, 119
Meyer, Eugene, 235, 256
Michelson, Charles, 260, 348
Miles, Harriette, 50, 55–56
Miles, Laban, 17, 50
Miller, Adolph, 179
Miller, Bunny, 349–50
Miller, William, 398
Mills, Ogden L., 190, 210, 274, 279, 280, 302
Minerals Separation, 83
Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, 90
Minthorn, Grandmother, 18, 27, 56
Minthorn, Henry John, 7, 19–22, 26, 27, 29, 276
Mississippi Flood of 1927, 3, 181–84, 192, 328
Mitchell, Billy, 172
Mitchell, Wesley C., 296
Mitchell, William D., 210, 224, 227
Moley, Raymond, 278, 354
Moreing, Charles Algernon, 75, 78, 82
Moreing, Charles Augustus, 53, 58, 59, 73, 74
Morgan, J. P., 274
Morgenthau, Henry, 342
Morgenthau Plan, 365
Morton, Thruston, 395
Moses, George H., 190, 194
Moton, Robert R., 183, 212, 272
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 175–76, 238–39, 254
Mussolini, Benito, 247
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 225
Nagasaki, 361
Nansen, Fridtjof, 141
Nash, George H., 96, 132
National Association of Manufacturers, 217
National Bureau of Economic Research, 220
National Business Survey Conference, 221–22
National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies, 341
National Credit Corporation, 253
National Parks Association, 176
National Recovery Administration, 115, 302
Native Americans, 8, 16–17, 22, 212
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 370, 375
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 362
New Deal, 4, 233, 234, 253, 278, 295, 296, 298–305, 308–13, 322, 330, 332, 349, 358, 371, 372, 386, 393, 401
New Economic Policy of 1921, 144
New Look, 387
New York Life Insurance Company, 294
New York Stock Exchange, 218, 219, 281
Newberg, Oregon, 19–20, 24, 27, 28, 389
Newton, Walter H., 209, 211
Nicholas II, Czar, 86, 107, 319
Nine-Power Treaty of 1922, 248
Nixon, Richard M., 202, 382, 394–97
Nobel Peace Prize, 121
Nonagression Pact, 326
Norris, George W., 157, 188, 192, 194, 224, 238–39, 243, 290
Norris–La Guardia Act, 4
O’Laughlin, John C., 325, 339, 364
Omsk, Siberia, 86
One World (Willkie), 336
Orlando, Vittorio, 123
Osage Indians, 16, 17
Padereski, Ignacy Jan, 38
Page, Walter Hines, 93, 94, 100–1, 104
Palestine, 342–43
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 134
Palo Alto, California, 26, 28, 78, 84, 197, 293, 295, 349, 350
Panama-Pacific International Exhibition of 1915, 91
Panic of 1837, 157
Panic of 1893, 48, 49
Parker, John J., 224–26
Patman, Wright, 267
Patton, George S., 268
Peace Corps, 396
Pearl Harbor, 325, 336–39, 344
Pearson, Drew, 276
Penney, J. C., 206
Peonage systems, 184, 185
Percy, Lord Eustace, 106
Perón, Juan, 361
Pershing, John J., 124, 126, 129
Peter the Great, 319
Pius XII, Pope, 361
Poincaré, Henri, 99
Poland, 38, 127, 128, 328
Polo, Marco, 67
Pomerene, Atlee, 226
Presidential elections
1896, 139
1912, 139, 196
1920, 137–40, 307
1924, 154, 168
1928, 5, 141, 187–204, 273, 274, 292, 308
1932, 5, 197, 211, 251, 263, 265, 270–85, 289, 292, 297, 300, 301, 306, 308–11, 313, 331, 333, 348, 358
1936, 302, 304, 305, 307–11, 331, 332, 333
1940, 310, 327, 329–36, 338, 347
1944, 336, 347–48
1948, 369, 372–73, 375
1952, 379–83
1956, 388–89
1960, 202, 394–96
1964, 397–98
President’s Conference on Unemployment, 157–58
President’s Emergency Committee for Employment (PECE), 229–31
President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief (POUR), 231
Princip, Gavrilo, 92
Principles of Mining (Hoover), 88
Problems of Lasting Peace, The (Hoover and Gibson), 344–46, 353
Prohibition, 4, 14, 110, 191, 195, 199–202, 208, 255, 271, 279, 281
Pulitzer, Joseph, 138
Quakerism (Society of Friends), 8, 11–13, 20, 21
Quartermaster Corps, 124, 126
Radio, 2, 279, 283, 284
Railroads, 158–59, 235, 236, 239, 242, 254, 255, 256, 264
Ransome, Wolfe, 37
Raskob, John J., 242, 252, 304
Rayburn, Sam, 373, 377
Reader’s Digest, 344
Reagan, Ronald, 6, 301, 402
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), 253, 255–57, 259, 262–65, 280, 287
Red Cross, 104, 117, 131, 182, 183, 229, 239, 240, 266, 327–29
Red Scare, 134
Renshaw, Patrick, 140
Reparations, 163, 245–46
Republican Circles, 333
Republican Federal Associates, 302, 305
Rhondda, Lord, 112
Richey, Lawrence, 209
Rickard, Edgar, 89, 123, 190, 209, 293, 350
Riga, Treaty of, 143
Roberts, Owen J., 226, 227
Robinson, Joseph T., 240, 242, 256, 260, 262, 263
Romania, 126–27
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 327, 328, 350, 352, 377
Roosevelt, Elliott, 335
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 4, 5, 115, 138, 157, 175, 197, 202–3, 206, 211, 217, 223, 242, 246–47, 269, 271–81, 283–89, 292, 293, 297–300, 302–4, 314, 320–42, 346–52, 357, 358, 360, 369, 387, 393
Roosevelt, Theodore, 4, 10, 104, 139, 155, 176, 196, 237, 296, 311, 343, 350
Root, Elihu, 191
Rowe, A. S., 75, 78, 79
Rowe, Mrs. A. S., 79
Ruark, Robert C., 381
Russia, 85–87, 117–18, 141, 145, 147–49
Russian Revolution, 86, 107, 118
Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5, 117
St. Lawrence Seaway, 155, 174, 175, 266
Salem, Oregon, 22–24, 276
Salk, Jonas, 2
Salvation Army, 229
Sanders, Everett, 303
Sanford, Edward Terry, 224
Saturday Evening Post, 295, 343
Sauberzweig, Traugott von, 102
Sawyer, Charles E., 165
Second Hoover Commission, 5, 385–86
Shaw, Arch, 333
Shiloh, Battle of, 21
Shotwell, James T., 220
Shouse, Jouett, 242
Siberia, 86, 117
Skinner, Robert, 92–93
Smith, Adam, 157
Smith, Alfred E., 195–97, 202–4, 206, 224, 241–42, 248, 273, 304
Smith, J. P., 46–47
Smith, Jesse, 164
Smoot-Hawley Tariff, 215, 216, 240, 277, 280, 281, 290
Snell, Bertrand, 251
Sobel, Robert, 222–23
Social Security, 216, 217
Sons of Gwalia, Australia, 57–59, 66
Sousa, John Philip, 203
Soviet Union, 3, 99, 121, 122, 141–50
Speculation, 179–80, 218, 242
Stagg, Amos Alonzo, 37
Stalin, Joseph, 319, 325, 339, 351, 359, 361, 363
Stanford, Leland, 26, 30
Stanford Cardinal, 35–37
Stanford University, 2, 26–48, 52, 55, 56, 79, 83, 87, 90, 95, 109, 133, 189, 198, 203, 284, 294, 374, 400
Steagall, Henry, 259
Stearns, Justus S., 190
Steel industry, 159–60
Stevenson, Adlai, 381
Stimson, Henry L., 210, 233, 248–50, 295, 346, 351, 358–61
Stimson Doctrine, 249, 250
Stock market crash (October 1929), 141, 180–81, 215, 219, 223, 228
Stone, Harlan F., 167
Strategic Air Command, 387
Strauss, Lewis, 111, 128, 385
Strikes, 159, 221, 222, 254, 362–63, 371
Strong, Benjamin, 180
Strother, French, 209
Submarine warfare, 97, 107, 322
Sugar Equalization Board, 116, 123
Sullivan, Mark, 150, 301, 335, 378
Sunier, Mrs. Stephen, 14
Supreme Court of the United States, 223–27, 281, 307, 311, 312, 331
Taft, Robert A., 111, 326, 331, 333, 336, 371–72, 375, 377, 379–81, 384, 389
Taft, William Howard, 87, 136, 190–91, 196, 213, 333
Taft-Hartley Act, 371
Tarbell, Ida, 138
Tatum, Lawrie, 18
Tax policy, 155, 211, 233–34, 254, 261
Taylor, Myron, 327, 328
Teapot Dome oil swindle, 165–67
Thurmond, J. Strom, 373
Tianjin (Tientsin), China, 62, 64–65, 69–72
Tilson, John Q., 251
Tong Shan, China, 65
Tong Shao-yi, 69
Trueblood, Daisy, 23
Truman, Bess, 378
Truman, Harry S., 3, 5, 175, 326, 353, 357–67, 369–73, 376–78, 380, 381, 384, 385, 387
Truman Doctrine, 367, 375
Truman Presidential Library, 377
Tugwell, Rexford, 278
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 265
Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution, 286
Typhoid, 15, 41
Typhus, 130–31, 149
Underground Railroad, 9, 21
Unemployment, 4, 5, 157–58, 199, 217, 220–22, 228, 230, 234, 254, 261, 262, 264, 266, 313–14, 334
United Nations, 342, 353–54, 387, 388
United Nations International Children’s Fund, 96, 364
U.S. Coal Commission, 159
U.S. Food Administration, 99, 129
University of California, Berkeley, 36, 37
Ural Mountains, 85
Versailles, Treaty of, 123, 135–37, 189, 245, 344, 345, 352, 354
Versailles peace conference (1918), 37, 119, 123, 129, 135, 141, 323, 324
Veterans, 238, 242, 254, 266–68, 335, 383
Vietnam, 387
Volstead Act, 191
Wagner, Robert F., 237, 262, 263
Wagner, Robert F. Jr., 397
Wagner Act of 1935, 371
Walcott, Frederic C., 105
Walker, William, 11
Wallace, Henry A., 295, 369, 373
Wallace, Henry C., 109, 155–57, 175
Walsh, Thomas J., 262
War debt moratorium, 245–47
War Refugee Board, 342
Warren, Earl, 347, 355, 377, 397
Washington Naval Conference of 1921, 154, 244
Watson, James, 188, 192, 194
Wellstead, T. W., 75, 78
West Branch, Iowa, 1, 7–9, 12–14, 16, 18–20, 28, 200, 373, 399–400
Wheeler, Burton, 256
White, William Allen, 138, 140, 296, 306–8, 346
Wickersham, George W., 213
Wilbur, Ray Lyman “Rex,” 33, 35, 101, 109, 110, 113, 114, 165, 166, 175, 190, 210, 212, 235, 305, 351, 364
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 99
Willamette Valley, 19–20
Willis, Frank, 188, 189
Willkie, Wendell, 324–25, 334–36, 339–40, 347, 373, 379
Wilson, Charles, 386
Wilson, Woodrow, 3, 4, 87, 100, 101, 104–5, 107–10, 117–19, 123–28, 134, 136–38, 140, 152, 209, 222, 223, 237, 275, 296, 344, 352
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