President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis. Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum photo 31-1932-62 By Thomas F. Schwartz Previous blogs have explored Herbert and Lou Hoover’s interest in motion pictures. Herbert Hoover hoped to create a documentary on the work of the Commission for Relief in Belgium hiring a script writer and creating a rough … Continue reading The Academy Awards and the White House
by Thomas F. Schwartz A common technique used by advertisers engages the services of celebrities to endorse and promote their product. Current ethics laws prevent elected official from product endorsements. Such prohibitions did not exist for earlier generations of elected or appointed officials. A previous blog post indicated that Herbert Hoover was frequently approached as … Continue reading A 1927 Celebrity Endorsement
Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis, June 1928 (HHPL-M image 31-1928-46) by Spencer Howard One question often asked is whether Vice President Charles Curtis attended Cabinet meetings during the Hoover Administration. At that time, it was a novel idea; only President Warren Harding had routinely included his vice president, Calvin Coolidge, in Cabinet meetings. Under most … Continue reading Did Vice President Charles Curtis attend Hoover’s Cabinet meetings?
