历届美国总统简介：赫伯特·克拉克·胡佛（在线收听）

赫伯特·克拉克·胡佛是美国第31任总统，赫伯特·克拉克·胡佛生于爱荷华州，毕业于斯坦福大学，作为一个采矿工程师。1897年，胡佛与罗·亨利结婚。亨利受过良好的教育，婚后成为胡佛的贤内助。他们有两个儿子。胡佛为一家公司所雇用去了澳大利亚，后来到中国，在一家私人企业公司工作，作为中国主要的工程师。他在1953年被任命为艾森豪威尔总统的委托主席。在1964年10月20日，胡佛逝世于纽约。24岁的胡佛曾作为美国“白领”被派往中国河北唐山的开滦煤矿“打工”。

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States, serving between 1929 and 1933. He was born in Iowa in 1874. His father was a blacksmith. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, and graduated as a mining engineer. He married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry, and they went to China, where he worked for a private corporation as China's leading engineer.

One week before Hoover celebrated his 40th birthday in London, Germany declared war on France, and the American Consul General asked his help in getting stranded tourists home. In six weeks his committee helped 120,000 Americans return to the United States. Next Hoover turned to a far more difficult task, to feed Belgium, which had been overrun by the German army.

After the United States entered the war, President Wilson appointed Hoover as the head of the Food Administration. He succeeded in cutting consumption of foods needed overseas and avoided rationing at home, yet kept the Allies fed. He then served as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. Hoover became the Republican Presidential nominee and won the 1928 election.

The Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months into his term. He created many projects to try and end the Great Depression, such as the Hoover Dam. He cut taxes and increased public spending. None of this produced economic recovery. As a result, Hoover is ranked poorly among former presidents. After World War II, he was a fierce opponent of communism. He died in 1964 at the age of 90.