President Herbert Hoover on TV! (1960)

Wow..I was first surprised to see that a President who was elected in 1928 was still alive to be on TV! While going through some old kinescopes, I came upon this clip of former President Herbert Hoover giving a speech on the opening day of the Republican National Convention held at the International Ampitheater in Chicago, IL.
This was the year that Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge were nominated to run against John Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson. (As you know, Nixon lost but later won along with VP Spiro Agnew.)
Anyway, here is a clip of 85 year old Hoover's speech to the convention on July 25, 1960.
UPDATE: See my recent updates on both the Democratic & Republican National Conventions of 1960.

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[reprobacious]

@BlackThoughtChannel Everything I wrote is 100% factual; acquaint yourself with history before commenting, please. I owe NOTHING to FDR; in fact, 1 month into his reign of terror he CONFISCATED everyone's gold (my grandfather was a lucky one who managed to keep some of his) to try to force those trying to weather the depression into govt dependency to further empower himself at the USA's expense. He was a tyrant who extended & worsened the depression markedly & exploited people's suffering.

[reprobacious]

@BlackThoughtChannel If only! That's a common myth put forth by the left in this country. He DID get the ball rolling toward depression by recklessly increasing spending, & as the economy slowed & then crashed as overextended credit wiped out the stock market, he took precisely the WRONG approach by INCREASING taxes and spending further and signing the DISASTROUS Smoot-Hawley Act, dramatically increasing tariffs & wiping out int'l trade. FDR then magnified his mistakes a million-fold.

[Nes8bitmachine]

He looks like Boris Yeltsin.

[Budnipper82]

@amateurphilosopher How many Depressions had we had since FDR's policies and regulations were put in place? 0! Before FDR, this country had several Depressions. If McCain would have gotten in, we would probably be in the 2nd Depression today with unemployment much higher! I know it has to kill you Repugs that we've had 22 straight months of PRIVATE sector job growth and GDP growth! Ouch. Keep hoping for things to be bad! Defeating Obama is all the GOP cares about.

[Budnipper82]

@amateurphilosopher ... LOL. If I was you, I'd study your history a tad more. This country was already into full blown Depression after the crash of 29 before FDR even came into office in 33. Hoover sat back and didn't do crap to help helping people that were unemployed and were starving. Hoover signed the Republican sponsored "Smoot-Hawley Tarriff Act" in 1930 making things worse! FDRs policies relieved the suffering for the unemployed. Imagine if hadn't done anything.

[amateurphilosopher]

@Budnipper82 The Republicans lost in 1960 because of all the dead people who voted in Chicago (with a little help from Daley's thugs).

The one good thing that Obama has accomplished is proving to the most dim-witted lefties that FDR turned a recession into a long depression, by repeating FDR's destructive policies, with the same results.

[Budnipper82]

This is probably one reason Republicans lost in 1960. If I was a Republican, I would be embarrassed to mention Herbert Hoover's name! YOu know, all this pricks that throw off on FDR.. I just wished to God that they could go back in time and live in the Great Depression.... they'd never vote for another Republican again! FDR saved this country and provided jobs for the unemployed through the CCC, WPA, TVA, Dam Projects, etc. FDR saved my grandfather's ass thanks to the CCC and the GI Bill!

[33guyfawkes]

hoover was a good humanitarian but a bad president!

[spanishbizarro1]

Change the resolution to 240p to hear the audio

[rjdmom123]

Hey guys i had to do a president report on Herbert hoover and he was a very good president. he did NOT ruin the economy he wanted to make it better he didnt do it. if u dont believe me google POTUS and it will bring u to a factual website about presidents he is the 31'st remember he did his best!!! :)

[augustoPOGOARES]

Herbert Hoover ruined th economy :(

[guspolly]

Hoover seems to have a lot in common with Carter: Policies as president that made a bad economy worse, but having a longer, more successful post-presidency as an elder statesman.