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Title: A Conversation with Herbert Hoover
Source: c-span.org
URL Source: http://www.c-span.org/video/?320919-1/conversation-herbert-hoover
Published: Jan 31, 1960
Author: NBC, Reel America and C-SPAN 3
Post Date: 2014-09-14 11:57:53 by GreyLmist
Keywords: Herbert Hoover, Library on, War, Revolution and Peace
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Comments: 4

American History TV - Reel America, C-SPAN 3
January 31, 1960
A Conversation with Herbert Hoover [1 hour video]
A Conversation with Herbert Hoover is a 1960 film in which Ray Henle interviews the 31st President of the United States. Among other topics, President Hoover talked about the Hoover Library on ~~War~~ [War, Revolution and Peace] and presented items from the collection.
Transcript [below video at the site] - Intro and opening:
REPUBLICAN, HERBERT HOOVER, SERVED AS PRESIDENT FROM 1929 TO 1933. REMEMBERED MOST FOR HIS TIME IN THE OVAL OFFICE AT THE START OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, HOOVER ALSO SERVED AS THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE UNDER PRESIDENTS HARDING AND COOLIDGE. IN THIS HOUR-LONG 1960 NBC INTERVIEW, HOOVER DISCUSSES HIS LIFE BEYOND THE PRESIDENCY. SPEAKING WITH REPORTER RAY HENLE, HE DELVES INTO TOPICS INCLUDING HIS CHILDHOOD, HIS TIME IN CHINA DURING THE BOXER REBELLION AND [HIS] INVOLVEMENT IN SUPPLYING FOOD TO CIVILIANS IN GERMAN OCCUPIED BELGIUM DURING WORLD WORLD WAR I. THIS [PROGRAM] IS PART OF THE STANFORD LIBRARY'S DEPARTMENT OF [SPECIAL] COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES.
RAY HENLE [NBC News Commentator]: THIS IS THE CAMPUS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY, ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT SCHOOLS. THIS IS THE MEMORIAL CHURCH. THIS IS [THE] MEMORIAL THEATER. AND THIS IS THE LIBRARY ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE. [...] I AM MEETING A GREAT AMERICAN AND AN OLD FRIEND. I AM HERE TO HAVE A TALK WITH THE 31ST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, MR. HERBERT HOOVER.
HERBERT HOOVER: SIT DOWN, RAY.
RAY HENLE: THANK YOU, SIR. [COULD] YOU TELL US WHAT IT MEANS?
HERBERT HOOVER: WELL, IT IS THE LIBRARY ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE. THE PURPOSE OF IT IS TO PRESENT THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THIS WORLD SINCE THE BEGINNING OF FIRST WORLD WAR I. IT HAS MANY OBJECTIVES. ONE OF THEM IS TO AID IN [THE] DEVELOPMENT OF MEASURES OF PEACE [OUT OF A DISPLAY OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE WORLD IN THAT QUARTER]. IT COVERS ECONOMIC, MILITARY, OTHER QUESTIONS. IT IS NOW THE HAVEN OF HISTORIANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. BECAUSE THE GERMAN WAR LIBRARY WAS DESTROYED IN THE LAST WAR, THE FRENCH WAR LIBRARY WAS DESTROYED AND THE BRITISH WAR LIBRARY WAS GREATLY DAMAGED, THIS IS PRACTICALLY THE ONLY COMPLETE STORY OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAST 50 YEARS. [CONT. at the site]
Poster Comment:
Highlghts: Voluntarily took no salary for his years of government service and retired with no Presidential or other gov-pension -- just a gift of an office flag of the Presidency that he appreciates. He's addressed as Mr. Hoover, not President Hoover or Mr. President, and speaks of his Relief work during the World Wars, famines and disasters. Speaks about Communism, Stalin's armament of Germany against France, then Soviet Russia's invasion of Poland prior to Germany's, Soviet prison/work camps, China, American Communists, the increase of U.S. government officials and the budget through wars, Presidents and fishing, and his affiliation with mentoring programs like the Boys Club of America [now the Boys and Girls Club, I think]. Much more. A riveting video, I thought, for its historical perspective.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
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URL Source: http://www.c-span.org/video/?320919-1/conversation-herbert-hoover
Published: Jan 31, 1960
Author: NBC, Reel America and C-SPAN 3
American History TV - Reel America, C-SPAN 3
January 31, 1960
A Conversation with Herbert Hoover [1 hour video]
A Conversation with Herbert Hoover is a 1960 film in which Ray Henle interviews the 31st President of the United States. Among other topics, President Hoover talked about the Hoover Library on ~~War~~ [War, Revolution and Peace] and presented items from the collection.

The video of that 1960 1-hour Herbert Hoover interview can be viewed at the above c-span.org URL Source. During the interview, he talks about his geological survey and mining industry employment that took him to places like Russia and China. He also talked some about a historical, technical book on mining procedures and so on that he and his wife had worked for years to translate into English as a family project. I think that rare and vast book is probably also referenced at PART III. Viet Nam War of "BLACK GOLD, HOT GOLD: The Rise of Fascism in the American Energy Business" by Marshall Douglas Smith. Although the televised 1960 interview may have brought the book to the attention of more oil industrialists and such than the few people who were previously aware of it, I don't think Hoover can be blamed for the Rockefeller intriques that are described in the Marshall Douglas Smith publication linked above as transpiring from it, spannning the ending of WWII through the Viet Nam War and decades beyond. Excerpt from the opening paragraphs of Part III. Viet Nam War:

In 1945, at the end of WWII, when the Japanese surrendered, General Douglas MacArthur became the military Governor of Japan. MacArthur's assistant was Laurence Rockefeller, one of John D's four grandsons. Just before the Japanese surrendered, the US had been preparing for a massive invasion of the Japanese home islands and had stockpiled vast supplies of weapons and munitions on the island of Okinawa. Enough weaponry to invade Japan. What ever happened to all those military supplies?
With Vice-governor Laurence Rockefeller's assistance most of them were sold to the leader of Viet Nam, Ho Chi Minh, for something like one US dollar and Ho's goodwill. Why would Laurence do that? That was US taxpayer property. Ho Chi Minh had been an ally to help fight the Japanese during the war. But the Chinese had been an even greater ally, so why didn't the weapons go to China? Those weapons might have prevented Mao Tse Tung from taking over China just four years later if they had been given to China. But that wasn't the plan. From where did Mao get his weapons?
In the 1920's an insider secret became known to a few people. It was published in an exhaustive world resources survey book written by a renowned world- traveling geologist named Hoover, who later became a US President. Not many copies were printed and few people read the book. The secret was that one of the world's largest potential oil fields ran along the coast of the South China Sea right off French Indo-China, now known as Viet Nam. But in the 1920's the method of deep sea oil drilling had not yet been developed. In 1945, the French still held small oil-poor Viet Nam as a colony. Laurence knew about Hoover's book and the off shore oilfields. The French could be driven out if the Vietnamese nationals, lead by Ho Chi Minh, could be supplied with weapons. Did the French know about this?
Laurence Rockefeller thought he could trick Ho Chi Minh by offering him the weapons to drive out the French and then in return Standard would take over the as yet undeveloped offshore fields. But in 1954 when Vietnamese General Giap finally defeated and drove out the French at Dien Bien Phu, Ho reneged on the deal. Since by then, everybody including the French, the Vietnamese, the Japanese and the Chinese had all read the same Hoover resource book and knew there was a vast supply of oil off the Vietnamese coast. Many people have wondered why the French have been so recalcitrant toward the US ever since French President Charles DeGaul wanted to pull out of NATO in the mid-1950's.
Ho Chi Minh would not let Standard Oil simply walk in and walk off with all the Vietnamese oil. So as before, any country which owns the oil is branded as communist since they hold the oil as community property and won't allow private corporations, like Standard, to develop the fields and steal the oil. In this case, young American's themselves where hired directly to be the fascists to go fight the Vietnamese communists.
The whole 20 year Viet Nam war from 1955 to 1975 was an oil scam. And all during the war, Vietnamese General Giap fought the Americans with weapons he got from Laurence for a dollar. Did you ever wonder why the US, despite, greatly superior weapons, and the loss of 57,000 Americans and half a million Vietnamese, never won the war? Ever wonder why the US President issued such strange rules of engagement for the American troops that made sure they didn't win? Ever wonder why Henry Kissinger, a personal assistant to Nelson Rockefeller spent so much time in the Viet Nam/Paris Peace talks which never went anywhere but simply dragged on for years. Maybe winning the war wasn't part of the plan of the Empire of Energy. Maybe the timing of the war was more important.
In the 1950's a method of undersea oil exploration was perfected which used small explosions deep in the water and then recorded the sound echos bouncing off the various layers of rock below. The surveyor could then determine the exact location of the arched salt domes which hold the accumulated oil beneath them. But if this method were used off the Viet Nam coast on property Standard didn't own or have the rights to, the Vietnamese, the Chinese, the Japanese and probably even the French would quickly run to the United Nations and complain that America was stealing the oil, and that would shut down the operation.
In 1964, after Viet Nam was divided into North and South, and the contrived Gulf of Tonkin incident, several US aircraft carriers were stationed offshore of Viet Nam and the war was started. Every day jet planes would take off from the carriers, bomb locations in North and South Vietnam, and then using normal military procedure when returning would dump their unsafe or unused bombs in the ocean before landing back on the carriers. Safe ordnance drop zones were designated for this purpose away from the carriers.
Even close-up observers would only notice many small explosions occurring daily in the waters of the South China Sea and thought it was only part of the war. The US Navy carriers had begun Operation Linebacker One, and Standard Oil had begun its ten year oil survey of the seabed off of Viet Nam. And the Vietnamese, Chinese and everybody else around, including the Americans, were none the wiser. The oil survey hardly cost Standard Oil a nickel, the US taxpayers paid for it.
In 1995, in a multi-hour BBC TV documentary broadcast about the oil industry, the president of one of the oil companies, a spin-off of Standard, stated, .. It was quite a coincidence, that we finished our offshore oil survey on the very last day of the war, just as the last helicopter was leaving the roof of the embassy in Saigon. A coincidence?
Fifteen years later, after North and South Viet Nam were unified and all the dust settled and most people had forgotten about the war, the Vietnamese decided they needed some cash and would allow offshore oil exploration. They divided up their coastal area into many oil lots and let foreign companies bid on the lots, with the proviso that Viet Nam got a cut of the action.
Oil companies from 12 countries put in bids. Norway's Statoil, British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, even Russia, Germany and Australia all put in bids. But when those countries drilled in their oil lots they all came up with dry holes. Only the American company had gushers and since 1990 has pulled billions of dollars out of their Golden Dragon, Blue Lotus, and White Tiger oil fields in the South China Sea off Viet Nam. Coincidence? Were they just lucky? Or did they know something those other oil companies didn't?

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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
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URL Source: http://www.c-span.org/video/?320919-1/conversation-herbert-hoover
Published: Jan 31, 1960 Author: NBC, Reel America and C-SPAN 3 American History TV - Reel America, C-SPAN 3
January 31, 1960
A Conversation with Herbert Hoover [1 hour video]
A Conversation with Herbert Hoover is a 1960 film in which Ray Henle interviews the 31st President of the United States. Among other topics, President Hoover talked about the Hoover Library on War [War, Revolution and Peace] and presented items from the collection.

The video of that 1960 1-hour Herbert Hoover interview can be viewed at the above c-span.org URL Source. During the interview, he talks about his geological survey and mining industry employment that took him to places like Russia and China. He also talked some about a historical, technical book on mining procedures and so on that he and his wife had worked for years to translate into English as a family project. I think that rare and vast book is probably also referenced at PART III. Viet Nam War of "BLACK GOLD, HOT GOLD: The Rise of Fascism in the American Energy Business" by Marshall Douglas Smith. Although the televised 1960 interview may have brought the book to the attention of more oil industrialists and such than the few people who were previously aware of it, I don't think Hoover can be blamed for the Rockefeller intriques that are described in the Marshall Douglas Smith publication linked above as transpiring from it, spannning the ending of WWII through the Viet Nam War and decades beyond. Excerpt from the opening paragraphs of Part III. Viet Nam War:

The chapter excerpt from that book can be read above at Post #3, with the section highlighted that pertains to the Hoovers' mining industry book-project. The full chapter of the Energy Business book noted here can be read at the linked site. All other chapters from I-IV are available there, as well.
Appending this 4um Ref. with additional info and links continued there re: the interview conversation with former President Herbert Hoover and more about what he discussed of these subjects.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
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