Going to talk with. Homas schwartz he directed as an author and editor. Professional awards. Today we are going to take a to the time ofme Herbert Hoover. Tom, i want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . The staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Great. We have lots of questions. I will sign off. I will let you get into your program and i will pop back in when we are ready for q a. Have at it. Enjoy. Thank you, patrick. So, you see the exterior of the hoover president ial library museum. We are the smallest facility. We were founded as a quaker community. Hoover was our first quaker president. How did hoover get in . He predates roosevelt. This is the hoover tower at Stanford University. Herbert hoover was with president wilson in versailles
Patrick lets get to it. Today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the Herbert Hoover president ial library. He has been with the Hoover Library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois , state historian and went on to lincoln collection at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards. He will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln, but to the time of Herbert Hoover. Tom, are you there . I want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . Thomas the staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Patrick great. I know you have a great set of images and stories and tales. I have a feeling we have lots of questions. I will sign off.
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As rep. Tom cole, republican from oklahoma. We have asked you this question before. Always had a large reading list. What is on your current reading list. Tom i have just finished the splendid in the bio b is a wonderful recollection of his family during the war during 1940. Its really been day of the german and some of the countries in france. And then basically, what it was like to standalone against nothing germany. Until the june of 41, then the russians were in the war and then obviously, by december of 41, the United States were in the war. Its a wonderful read about a god that i consider literally the greatest person of the century. In the supreme ordeal of his long career. Also been reading. I just picked up the great historian by the name of jean edward smith. Great biographer. I read his biographies, tran10 eisenhower. And eisenhower was by far the best biography ever written about him and there have been good ones. It he died in 2000 in 19. So right now, i just got into what