November 10, 1927 – United States Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover gives an informal address to his fellow Hawkeyes at a meeting of the Iowa Society of Washington D.C. His talk: My Boyhood Days in Iowa.
In 1927, Herbert Hoover was the United States Secretary of Commerce – serving under President Calvin Coolidge. Within a few months, the Republican Party will nominate this widely-popular Iowa native to be their candidate for the White House in the 1928 national election, and by March of 1929, Hoover will be the 31st President of the United States. But on this autumn night on November 10, 1927 – in a dining hall in Washington D.C. – Herbert Hoover was not thinking about politics – but his childhood years in Iowa.
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