Herbert Hoover Dies at 90
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Republicans React to Loss Of Hoover
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Sen. Barry Goldwater said former President Herbert Hoover's death was a "profound loss" to America and the world.
The Republican presidential nominee said in a statement issued through GOP national headquarters:
The passing of Herbert Hoover is a profound loss to the American people and to the cause of individual freedom and dignity throughout the world.
"HERBERT HOOVER embodied and came to symbolize the finest principles and qualities for which our country stands. His life's work was that of the true humanitarian, for his efforts to help mankind stemmed not from personal ambition but from heartfelt compassion and a deep belief in divine purpose.
"His millions of friends can find solace in knowing that Herbert Hoover lived to see his position in history vindicated. And despite the petty detractors of his lifetime, the name of Herbert Hoover survives and will be passed on to future generations of his country-men as one of the truly great Americans . . .
"Herbert Hoover was a great human being. He was a whole man."
Sen. Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen, Ill., called Hoover "one of the most gracious and one of the greatest men who has impressed himself upon the life of this republic."
DIRKSEN ADDED: "No man in our time had such a thorough concept of the vital forces which accounted for the progress of our own country and no man fought with greater tenacity to keep those forces unimpaired at a time when the nation was beset with a sharp economic dislocation."
Sen. Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., said: "Herbert Hoover's passing is a distinct loss to the country. He was a far greater president than has been recognized and in retirement he gave us his advice and counsel to Democratic and Republican administrations alike.
"His passing will be felt by all of us regardless of party. Both his character and his work for our country will always be gratifying to remember and will serve as a monument to his greatness."
Other comments:
DEAN BURCH. GOP national chairman: "The nation and the world have lost a great humanitarian and an equally great statesman. His faith in time-tested American principles and traditions, his personal integrity and high moral standards, were the hallmarks of a lifetime given to meaningful tasks on behalf of his fellow man."
Sen. John G. Tower, R-Tex：“Herbert Hoover was a man of deep compassion and rare wisdom. History will record him as one who contributed mightily to the welfare of his country and to all mankind. His modesty, his integrity, his virtuous life will be an example to all Americans for all time to come.”
Sen. James B. Pearson, R-Kan.: "History and the memory of man will treat him with the same kindness as that which he exhibited in leading the hungry people of the world."
SENATE GOP WHIP Thomas H. Kuchel, Calif.: "The history of one of mankind's most devoted humanitarianans and a benefactor of countless millions now is finished . . . his imposing achievements as a competent, imaginative administrator, as an earnest statesman and as an unselfish exponent of the brotherhood of man won him the admiration and gratitude of peoples around the globe."
Daily hansan
62nd Year, No. 23
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Ex-Chief of State Cited For Humanitarianism
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1964
NEW YORK —(UPI)— One overwhelming irony hung like a shadow over the long life of Herbert Clark Hoover and marked his many years as an elder statesman with a deep and abiding melancholy.
It was indeed ironic that the only time in a distinguished career as a public servant Hoover suffered from unpopularity or was accused of failure was on that one occasion when he assumed the highest office his countrymen have to offer.
For Hoover, the 21st President of the United States, the White House became the center of tragedy, an easy target for a nation plunged into fear and confusion.
In many ways, Herbert Hoover was a victim of one of history's most violent upheavals, but the angry cries of "the Hoover depression" echoed around him for years and filled his life with bitterness.
IT WAS a great tribute to his personal sense of "rugged individualism" that Hoover did not yield to the temptation of brooding in self-imposed obscurity after he left the White House, but instead devoted three more decades of service to the nation he so dearly loved.
It required four secretaries and a research assistant working full-time just to keep up with the rugged pace of the man who tackled a work load which consumed 14 hours a day, seven days a week.
Right up to his death Hoover never stopped working on what he once whimsically called his*“unending public chores” and while in his 80's he maintained a daily schedule which would tax the strength of a man half his age.
DURING THESE waning years in a career that began before the turn of the century, Hoover journeyed thousands of miles by air and auto each year to receive honorary degrees from universities and colleges; to make speeches at the openings of boys clubs; and to carry on his duties as a member of 12 different boards of directors or trustees of educational and scientific institutions.
On August. 10, on his 88th birthday, he traveled from his permanent residence in a New York hotel to his home town of West Branch,
Iowa, for the dedication of the Hoover Memorial Presidential Library. On that occasion, he proposed that a "council of free nations" be formed to preserve world peace. He said such a council would be in a position to step in and act in the event the United Nations should fail in its mission to safeguard global peace
Hoover also took the opportunity at the dedication ceremony to reassert his lifelong faith in America
assert his treed lash in America.
HE REFERRED to "the inner forces from which come the strengths of America" as assurances on the nation's "future and its continued service to mankind."
Then, in 1953, Harry S. Truman joined the exclusive club and the membership bulged to three men when Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961.
For two decades, Hoover was referred to in newspaper stories as "the nation's only living former President."
But Hoover set a record that will be difficult to equal—he lived longer as a former chief executive than any other president in history. And no man, after leaving the White House, matched Hoover's performance of unstinting devotion to public service.
DURING ALL this time, Hoover never lost faith in the belief he formed as a young man—a belief in the American as an individual and in America as a nation.
Hoover was, as long as he lived, the exponent of a political philosophy that was swept away—perhaps forever-with the election in 1932 of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Domestically, Hoover felt that the American people could solve most of their own problems with little interference from the federal government. He also was a strict advocate of a rigid economical approach to government.
In foreign relations, Hoover often was labeled an "isolationist" by his opponents, but his outlook in that area softened considerably in recent years as was indicated by the "council of free nations" proposal at West Branch.
But as late as the Korean war, Hoover expressed the belief that America was capable of building a
fortress all its own. In a major speech at that time, he said "any attempt to make war on the Communist mass by land invasion, through the quicksands of China India or Western Europe, would be sheer folly."
HE DECLARED that America's defense lines should be the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Hoover brought his belief in government into the realm of his own pocketbook. In 1955 he revealed he had not personally used any of the government salaries paid him as president or for any other federal duties.
Sometimes, he said, he had merely refused to accept his salary. And when he did accept it, the money became a contribution to one of his favorite projects.
It was the 1929 depression that made Hoover's years in the White House a time of pain and deep anxiety. While the depression was caused by a wide variety of complex factors, Hoover was blamed for not taking stronger action to spur an economic revival.
Under the grim and bitter stress of the times, the word "dePRESSION" became synonymous with the name "Hoover" in the minds of many Americans.
IN LATER and calmer years, most Americans realized that Hoover — to a great extent had been abused as a scapegoat to explain a disaster that may already have been inevitable by the time he took the oath of office.
His reputation restored. President Truman called him into government service on several occasions, notably to head a commission to study ways to save money in government. Hoover later headed a similar commission for President Eisenhower and came up with suggestions for saving billions of dollars a year.
Hoover never tired of reiterating his belief that the United States could and would continue to overcome all crises. On his 83rd birthday, he voiced optimism that America would eventually overcome the Soviet threat, a view he maintained until his death.
All Student Council to Convene For Special Budget Session
The All Student Council will face the task of allotting $6,160 to eight campus organizations in addition to itself, at the annual budget session of the ASC tonight.
About $850 of this money will not be available for distribution. It has been spent already and registered as the largest deficit the ASC has ever had to work with.
"THE DEFICIT FUNDS will not be taken proportionately from all of the organizations receiving support as previously planned." Ray Myers, Dodge City senior and treasurer of the ASC, said. "The Council itself was responsible for amassing most of the deficit, so why should the other organizations be penalized for the ASC's spending.
Two of the groups receiving funds last year will not be allotted funds this year, Myers said. The Radio Production Center (RPC) is receiving support from the University, and the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) did not submit an application for funds.
People-to-People will receive its funds directly from the University instead of having them channeled through the ASC as they were last year.
The RPC received $723.35 last year, the AURH $94.23, and P-to-P $2000. The P-to-P funds were a special grant from the University, so were not included in the actual distribution of ASC funds.
Weather
The weather bureau predicts a low tonight of 45 to 50. Winds will be westerly 15 to 25 miles per hour. Wednesday it will be generally fair.
"WITH THE LOSS of the RPC
and AURH, and a tightening up or the expenditure of the ASC, the council should be able to get back on its feet," Myers said.
The ASC usually requires about $3,000 for its operation which includes elections, executive committees and normal operating expenses, Myers said.
Past year, $3100 was distributed among the 11 organizations receiving support. About the same amount will be available this year for distribution among the eight organizations who have petitioned for ASC funds.
The organizations which will receive money are:
Mortar Board, Alpha Phi Omega, the Engineering School Council, the Business School Council, the American Pharmaceutical Association, the Student Bar Association, the Current Events Committee, and the Pep Clubs.
Death Comes In New York Apartment
NEW YORK — (UPI) – Herbert Clark Hoover, humanitarian, statesman and 31st President of the United States died today. He was 90.
Death came in his Waldorf Towers apartment at 9:35 a.m. CST when his heart, weakened by blood toxins resulting from massive internal hemorrhaging, finally gave out.
The Army immediately put into action its long prepared plan for impressive funeral rites through which the nation could express its admiration and gratitude for Hoover's 50-year career of public service. His body will be flown later this week to Washington to lie in state under the rotunda of the nation's Capitol, so recently the scene of President Kennedy's and Gen. Douglas Macarthur's lying-in-state.
The former Chief Executive, who occupied the White House in the economically fateful years of 1929 to 1932, will be buried atop a slight hill in West Branch, Iowa, overlooking the cottage where he was born. The body of his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, will be disinterred at Stanford University in California and brought to West Branch for reinterment at his side.
HOOVER'S ONLY children, sons Herbert, Jr., and Allan, were at their father's bedside when death came. The death announcement giving only name, date and time, was handed to two wire service correspondents, the only press allowed in the apartment, by Hoover's aide, Neil MacNeil.
Three physicians, hended by Dr. Michael J. Lepore, signed the death bulletin, which said Hoover took a turn for the worse at 9 p.m. CST yesterday after a slight rally. He was in a deep coma throughout the night and morning and did not regain consciousness.
Hoover, one of the great humanitarianists of World War I and the post war period, lived for years in the shadow of the disastrous economic depression which occurred during his administration. But he emerged again in World War II and its aftermath as a revered participant in domestic and world affairs.
Hoover, who was 90 last August 10, had the distinction of living longer as an ex-president than any other chief executive, although John Adams lived six months longer in his 90th year than Hoover. His death left only two former presidents—Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Hoover had been more or less inactive since last February when he was bedded by an old kidney ailment and a respiratory condition. He had his gall bladder removed in 1958, underwent surgery for a growth in his bowel in 1962, and was stricken by anemia and intestinal bleeding in 1963.
THE BODY of the revered elder statesman will be taken to Washington to lie in state in the Great Rotunda of the nation's capital after he lies in state for two days in New York's St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church.
Final funeral services will be held in his native town, West Branch, Iowa, followed by burial at the national park on the site of the small cottage where he was born.
The "grand old man of the grand old party" was born a blacksmith's son and rose to fame and fortune as a mining engineer.
He had a distinguished career of public service behind him when he was elected to succeed President Calvin Coolidge in 1928, defeating Gov. Al Smith of New York. He had served in the cabinets of Presidents Warren Harding and Coolidge.
But he was proudest of his services to Democratic President Woodrow Wilson in World War I when he headed up relief services in Europe and distributed over $5 billion worth of food between 1914 and 1923.