| | Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, served as the president of the Girl Scouts. <ref>http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/lh31.html</ref> | | Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, served as the president of the Girl Scouts. <ref>http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/lh31.html</ref> |
| − | Hoover was against the U. S.'s entry into World War II. In a radio address to the nation from Chicago on September 16, 1941, he said, "...And what happens to the millions of enslaved people of Russia and to all Europe and to our own freedoms if we shall send our sons to win this war for Communism?" Ref: ''Freedom Betrayed'', Hoover Institution Press, by Herbert Hoover, page 259, published 2011. | + | Hoover was against the U. S.'s entry into World War II. In a radio address to the nation from Chicago on September 16, 1941, he said, "...And what happens to the millions of enslaved people of Russia and to all Europe and to our own freedoms if we shall send our sons to win this war for Communism?" Ref: ''Freedom Betrayed'', Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, California, by Herbert Hoover, page 259, published 2011. |