TODAY: (Updated 2:53 p.m.) President Gerald R. Ford visited the gravesite of former President Herbert Hoover on Oct. 18, 1989. Here is his speech from that day, courtesy of the ...

Gazette archive photos This was the scene on Oct. 25, 1964, at the Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport as the body of former President Herbert C. Hoover was returned to Iowa for burial.

Fifty years after the death of Iowa-born President Herbert Hoover, his legacy as a humanitarian will be marked with ceremony and volunteerism. In his hometown of West Branch, members of Hoover's ...

About the park. Size: 187 acres. Visitors: 134,249 in 2011. Established: 1965. History: The park was established primarily to preserve the two-room cottage where Hoover was born and the grave site ...

See all the Grave Sightings posts here. Forget Parker Lewis. Before he became the president that will always be remembered for plunging the country into the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover couldn ...

Fifty years ago, on a warm, Indian summer afternoon much like Saturday, more than 75,000 people gathered to witness the funeral of former president Herbert Hoover. In the days after Hoover's death ...

The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site received a visit from the United States National Archivist, Dr. Colleen Shogan. It’s one of the final stops in her tour across the country to visit ...

Hoover is likely spinning in his grave given the news that President Trump has declined an invitation to throw out the first pitch on ... President Herbert Hoover had a torrid love affair with ...

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site will host the following activities for Labor Day: ... which begin at 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Tallgrass Prairie observation deck by the gravesite parking lot.

The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site received a visit from the United States National Archivist, Dr. Colleen Shogan. It’s one of the final stops in her tour across the country to visit ...