Herbert Hoover and the Declaration of Independence – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Herbert Hoover and the Declaration of Independence – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Herbert Hoover’s appreciation for the principles of the American founding was shaped from an early age. He recalled that as a young boy, his “first paid job” in West Branch, Iowa, was “picking potato bugs at one cent a hundred,” and his wages went to “secure firecrackers with which to commemorate properly the Declaration of Independence.” Hoover described the American founding as the “American System.” He had a strong sense of American exception…