In elite, white political and financial circles ... Over the years, Moton's words and deeds impressed Herbert Hoover, who invited Moton to visit him anytime he was in Washington.

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served ... to this new structure. In Black Canyon, under the Boulder ...

The speaker was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was at home in Albany with his friend and advisor Felix Frankfurter, monitoring radio reports of a political disaster unfolding in Herbert Hoover's ...