On this day in history, Oct. 22, 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden ...

Herbert Hoover’s life story is one of loss ... and they didn’t know if it was permissible. The next day, I went up, and they left a solar-powered lamp with a note that said, ‘A little light to shine ...

Wahn Airport, near Bohn, Germany, Nov. 22, 1954: Former President Herbert Hoover addresses gathered reporters at Wahn Airport, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer standing behind him on the right.

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 ...