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Hoover Library sponsors Three Health Care Forums. Click here for more information and registration.

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Visit the Hoover/Belgium
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Remembering Herbert Hoover

Click here to see the film footage as seen on C-SPAN's Presidential Libraries: History Uncovered.

See video of the presidential library directors talking about their "favorite things" at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Truman Library!

"The imperative need of this nation at all times
is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women."

— Herbert Hoover, August 10, 1954

The Hoover Library & Museum enables visitors to experience for themselves the many sides of Iowa's only president:

The permanent galleries begin with Hoover's boyhood in Iowa and continue on to the Waldorf Towers in New York where he spent the final years of his life.
The Quarton Gallery offers exciting temporary exhibits relating to American history.
In the Hoover Library people of all ages can learn about President Hoover's life and career. Using manuscripts, photographs and oral histories, one can learn the stories of our history.

Herbert Hoover Museum

The Hoover Museum sits on the grounds of the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site where visitors can tour:

Mr. Hoover's birthplace cottage
a blacksmith shop
Quaker Meeting house
the gravesite of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover

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Now Showing

April 26 - November 2, 2008
Children in the White House:
Caroline Kennedy's Dolls

Coming Soon

Naturalization Ceremony
September 15, 2008

A naturalization ceremony of applicants for U.S. citizenship, begins at 1:30 p.m.

Games

Hoover Wore Many Hats, an interactive game for children of all ages. Play the game.

Hoover's Cross-Country Adventure
Drive your car across the USA by answering state trivia. Have fun and learn along the way! Play the game!
(This game works best with Macromedia's Flash Player. Download the free Flash Player from Macromedia.)

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