Children Quote by David Grann

“Hoover never wanted his men to overshadow him. The”

— David Grann

“Hoover, who was so sensitive about his modest stature that he rarely promoted taller agents”

— David Grann

There's something really specific about being a Hoover and the pejorative term that was multigenerationally tethered to economic hard times, misery and antipathy for…

— Margaret Hoover

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

— Babe Ruth

“In the fall of 1930, fifteen million Americans were out of work. President Herbert Hoover didn’t do much to alleviate the crisis. Self-reliance, he…

— Consuelo Saah Baehr

Hoover himself had risen from the most modest means of any president since Abraham Lincoln. Orphaned as a small boy, he worked his way…

— Margaret Hoover

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his…

— Clint Eastwood

“By 1951, Herbert Hoover was the fifth-most-admired man in the country. Asked how he’d redeemed himself after being turned into a villain, Hoover gave…

— Brady Carlson

“If the man in the street remembers anything about Herbert Hoover it is that his middle name was Laissez-Faire and he did nothing while…

— Robert Higgs

There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of…

— Clint Eastwood

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

— Clarence Darrow