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.
Me it is my belief that the only thing that we have to fear is fear itself. By the time Franklin Roosevelt gives his march 1933 inaugural speech, almost a quarter of the nation is unemployed. More than 5,000 banks have failed and drought is persisting in key agricultural areas of the country. People must have faith. Coming up in the next hour, stories from the Great Depression as we take you to places like toledo and then in 1931 five of the six largest banks all failed at the same time which made it the largest banking failure of the Great Depression. To successful infrastructure of the times still impacting us today. And to one ending in tragedy. Well talk you to st. Paul with gangsters and the corrupt police force strike a bargain. Well explore the impact of new deal programs like the Conservation Corp as we go just outside of amarillo, texas. We wouldnt have a park here if it wasnt for the Conservation Corp. And well hear from artists who tell tales. We begin our cities tour featur
Plunges and a financial panic gripped the world. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island i have but one desire, and that is to see my country again on the road to prosperity. This land was made for you and me let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. By the time Franklin Roosevelt gives his march 1933 inaugural speech, almost a quarter of the nation is unemployed. More than 5,000 banks have failed and drought is persisting in key agricultural areas of the country. Coming up in the next hour, stories from the Great Depression as we take you around the country to places like toledo. And then in 1931, five of the six largest banks in toledo all failed at the same time, which made it the largest banking failure of the Great Depression. Two successful Infrastructure Projects of the time still impacting us today. And to one ending in tragedy. Well take you to saint paul where depression gangsters and the corrup
Your people must have faith. In the 1920s, toledo was the Fastest Growing manufacturing city in america. In some, ways it was the Silicon Valley of today. The auto industry, cutting edge technologies, they were all centered here at the time. As a result, the Manufacturing Base was going gangbusters. Toledo seemed to be one of the brightest economic spots on the whole american map during a decade that was a decade of prosperity. Then, in 1931, the entire house of cards collapsed. And five of the six largest banks in toledo all failed at the same time. That made it the largest banking failure of the Great Depression. The Banking Industry here was perhaps more corrupt than other places. That contributed to its catastrophic collapse. Toledo was the 27th largest city in america. Its economy was rather diversified for a city of its size. It was an up and coming, major producer of automobiles. It had one of the largest Automobile Companies producing cars here. But it was also a city that had