WASHINGTON, March 4, 1929 (UP) -- When Herbert Hoover became president of ... will come from the Treasury Department to the White House and present the chief executive with a check or voucher ...

While living at the White House, Lou Hoover, the wife of the 31st president, Herbert Hoover, had seen the ghost of Abigail Adams entering the doors of the East Room, where Adams and the staff were ...

Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr. was dressed in a brown velvet ... Scores crowded around the entrance of the White House three hours before President Coolidge and President-elect Hoover were scheduled ...

Meanwhile, the yacht cost $800,000 a year to staff and maintain, making the infamous "floating White House" an unnecessary ... which was first bought during the Herbert Hoover administration ...

President Herbert Hoover remains the only U.S. president ... Hoover-Ball was created specifically for him During his presidency, White House physician Joel T. Boone invented the game Hoover ...

In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing their place in the White House. The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding.

Died: October 20, 1964 . Despite being at the helm of government when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed.