November 6, 1928 – Humanitarian Herbert Hoover is elected President of the United States – the first man born west of the Mississippi River to hold America’s highest office.

After the United States entered the WWI (1917), President Woodrow Wilson appointed Herbert Hoover head of the Food Administration where he succeeded in cutting America’s over consumption of food – directing that surplus overseas where it was really needed – all while avoiding unpopular rationing here at home.

After the Armistice, Hoover, a member of the Supreme Economic Council and head of the American Relief Administration, organized shipments of food for starving millions in central Europe. He extended aid to famine-stricken Soviet Russia in 1921, and when a critic inquired if he was not thus helping Bolshevism, Hoover retorted, “Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!”

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