More about Herbert Hoover

• He refused to accept a salary for the presidency.
• His wife, Lou Henry Hoover, restored the Lincoln study for her husband’s use and had reproductions of Monroe furniture made with her own money.
• Hoover started out as an orphan and eventually became a self-made millionaire.
• "True Liberalism is found not in striving to spread bureaucracy but in striving to set bounds to it."