KENNEDY TAPES: Herbert Hoover on Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK & Herbert Hoover
Dictabelt L41.4
October 28, 1962
White House Telephone

President John F. Kennedy and former president Herbert Hoover discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis.

(It is difficult to hear President Hoover in this conversation. I did, however, modify the recordings slightly to raise the volume when Hoover speaks.)

(Photo: Presidents Herbert Hoover & John Kennedy.)

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[dcn8933]

I love how much respect Kennedy had for the former Presidents even calling Hoover who was President like 30 years before him and the rival party and still calls him "Mr.President."

[3theThird]

JFK tried to show respect to all the former presidents. Bush jr. could learn a lot about how a real man behaves from him. Of course, Bush jr. doesn't have the intellect. Poor slob.

[historyeducator]

@DeAnte85 Hoover was actually a decent human being, a humanitarian, and quite intelligent. If you rate presidents by their personal morals, he would be one of the top.

[jksonny]

@3theThird Actually, both H.W. Bush and W. Bush have been very respectful to current/former presidents, even those that followed them (and in Bush, Sr.'s case, beat him). Clinton has also been respectful of current/former presidents. Ditto Ford, Reagan, and Obama. The only recent president that has continually interfered and criticized the others, Republicans and Democrats, is Carter. Carter has made a pest of himself for every administration, which is why the other presidents can't stand him.

[NickB1121]

@3theThird

You dont have the intellect either. You do realize that JFK and Bush both had very similar political beliefs in regards to the economy and national defense, don't you? JFK was a tax cutter. He believed in having a strong military. Bush is all of these also. Obama, however, is simply anti-anything-American. Poor slob.

[PchanStitch]

@3theThird Unlike Bush, JFK was also one wrong word away from nuclear war. And how do you know what Bush did in private? Watching him on a spy cam?

[ThisTooShallFail]

Even as the video says at its beginning (blue screen), I think the recording is of a conversation with Harry Truman. Hoover was still alive (died about a year later), but 30 years on like that -- after the world and the USA's place in it had both changed so very, very much -- could not have been meaningful, or maybe even safe, to consult. We're talking about possible nuclear war with the Soviets here -- a topic a 1950s president could address, but a 1930s president could not.

[bigjoetube]

George Bush always gave great respect to his predecessors.

[snoops71]

@dcn8933 Yes, I agree. It shows a lot about his character.

[seth917]

@BlackThoughtChannel

Al Gore is a hypocrite's hypocrite. Look at the amount of green house gases his house produces (not to mention his SUV's, LIMO's and Jet flights).

He is a fat joke.

[alexmortland]

Time for some creamed corn, Herbert.