President Herbert Hoover on TV! (1960)

May 21st, 2010 | by admin |

Wow..I was first surprised to see that a President who was elected in 1928 was still alive to be on TV! While going through some old kinescopes, I came upon this clip of former President Herbert Hoover giving a speech on the opening day of the Republican National Convention held at the International Ampitheater in Chicago, IL.
This was the year that Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge were nominated to run against John Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson. (As you know, Nixon lost but later won along with VP Spiro Agnew.)
Anyway, here is a clip of 85 year old Hoover’s speech to the convention on July 25, 1960.
UPDATE: See my recent updates on both the Democratic & Republican National Conventions of 1960.

Duration : 0:2:10


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  1. 25 Responses to “President Herbert Hoover on TV! (1960)”

  2. By Ipetratz on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    @JoeDavidBrown

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    @JoeDavidBrown

    widespread areas to artificially inflate, and by massive numbers too. Starting in 2006, after these sub-prime mortgages were brought up to prime, homeowners were unable to pay off their mortgages and were forced in to foreclosure. The swarm of foreclosures flooded the market and caused nationwide falls in housing prices.

    Bush, much like Hoover, took sweeping government action to try contain a crisis. And now, like FDR, Obama is needlessly going to prolong this with more governm

  3. By Ipetratz on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    @JoeDavidBrown

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    @JoeDavidBrown

    depression for several years with his massive intrusions in the economy, such as the Wagner Act, the Nation Industrial Recovery Act, the Securities Exchange Act.

    As for the current recession, read up on the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. It created lax lending standards at which banks could lend sub-prime mortgage loans to home buyers. More provisions were added to the bill over the decades. Because of this massive surge of home buyers, it caused the housing prices in

  4. By Ipetratz on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    @JoeDavidBrown

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    @JoeDavidBrown

    Read your history books. Hoover had intervened in the economy, despite all the common wisdom as read by high school history teachers. He raised taxes, congress passed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs which were largely to blame for turning a severe economic slowdown into a depression. Unemployment was 9% when the market crashed and fell to 6.3% 8 months later. It was when the economy was beginning to recover that government acted. FDR continued what Hoover had started and prolonged the

  5. By xtiml on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    he was not a decent …
    he was not a decent person,he continued in all facets of government and continued badly like the rest of the cretins overseeing the total misguiding /ruination of america at the hands of the jewsih butt they slavered over.lol

  6. By Kalkas53 on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    Hoover really is …
    Hoover really is innocent

  7. By 81Deadpool on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    @comercio76 your …
    @comercio76 your just saying what the democrat/media complex says cuse they know you wont check your facts. hover put all kinds of goverment programs in place. FDR even campain against his spending during their election.

  8. By TehAsploder on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    I don’t know why …
    I don’t know why it’s “surpris[ing]” “that a President who was elected in 1928 was still alive to be on TV”. Between his election and this convention was 32 years. Jimmy Carter was elected 33 years ago, but nobody’s awed that he’s lived so long.

  9. By greeniem on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    ooh so the …
    ooh so the republicans invented anal sex on america, gotcha….

  10. By JoeDavidBrown on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    @greeniem Just …
    @greeniem Just another Republican who put this country into depression. Starting to see a pattern here?

  11. By greeniem on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    he invented anal sex
    he invented anal sex

  12. By D4g4marc4 on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    @mercenarybdu The …
    @mercenarybdu The Fed was irrelvant in 1929. The FDIC was invented because of the run on the banks and that run can happen again now.

  13. By D4g4marc4 on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    I actually attended …
    I actually attended this convention in 1960 as a 14-year old page but I was not in the hall when Mr. Hoover came out. Imagine it has been another 40 years passed now and none of the big guns of that convention such as Nixon, Lodge, Goldwater, or Rockefeller are still with us. People die but good ideas live on and Hoover took the rap for something he could not control in 1929 but his dedication to freedom is still inspirational even 70 years later. God bless that great humanitarian from Iowa.

  14. By chrisman737 on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    I might be mistaken …
    I might be mistaken but Herbert Hoover was on TV before this — back in 1928 at the World’s Fair. But at that time, of course, it was very experimental and only a few people at the Fair itself could see the “telecast.”

  15. By gotch09 on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    Oh I think the …
    Oh I think the depression was coming whether Mr. Hoover was in office or not.

  16. By gotch09 on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    @ericso333 I …
    @ericso333 I imagine countries like Germany would have been shocked as to find out they weren’t in a depression in the 30′s.

  17. By ericso333 on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    It looks like he …
    It looks like he had enough brains for 3 people, but he didn’t. The Great Depression was the fault of Big Papa Government getting involved in the free market. If the markets had been left alone, they would have self corrected. The businesses that made bad decisions would have failed, and the wise businesses would have thrived. Sure there would have been a 1 year recession, instead we got a 15 year Great Depression. Sounds like today? Europe did not suffer a depression in the 1930′s.

  18. By stillkindofhungry on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    Nope. One of, but …
    Nope. One of, but not the worst. Wilson, Roosevelt and now BHO. These are the worst.

  19. By Warjacki on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    Hoover was a …
    Hoover was a longtime friend of Joe Kennedy Sr. and was invited to JFK’s inauguration – despite being in the other party. Bad weather kept his plane from reaching DC.

  20. By ajb1776 on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    It took WW2 to pull …
    It took WW2 to pull the world and U.S. out of the depression. The banks and Wall Street were responsible for the Great Depression.

  21. By sandythebear on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    The depression was …
    The depression was not hoover’s fault popular to contrary belief

  22. By katocujokoa on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    a racist oppressor, …
    a racist oppressor,peice of shit

  23. By mercenarybdu on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    @mavivirgie

    yes he …
    @mavivirgie

    yes he was. But he was thrown out for opening fire on the World War I Veterans of the Bonus Army.

    If he had recognized the Fed as the problem and disposed of it, that wouldn’t had been the case.

  24. By mavivirgie on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    HE WAS THE WORST …
    HE WAS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY

  25. By pat442389 on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    @63whiskey giving …
    @63whiskey giving tax breaks to the super rich in time destroys the middle class, concentrates wealth and businesses in a few hands which hurt the overall economy. id much rather 85% of the population able to buy cars, college ed, homes, open small businesses with money to spare for spending into the economy. when wealth is in the upper 5% of the pop. our industries, factories, car manuf. and construction all suffer. reagan and bush they are failures and liars. they kiss big bankers ass

  26. By wagonfactor on May 21, 2010 | Reply

    he looks horrifying
    he looks horrifying

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