WASHINGTON, March 4, 1929 (UP) - Highlights of Herbert Hoover's inauguration speech: "The most malign of all these dangers, which confront this country today is disregard and disobedience of law." ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding.

Died: October 20, 1964 . Despite being at the helm of government when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed.