In 1960, with John F. Kennedy on his way to the White House, Hoover helped heal a divided nation, bringing Kennedy and Richard Nixon together and making peace after a close and bitter election.

Opinion: The U.S. presidents targeted by political violence include the only Iowan to hold the office, Herbert Hoover, writes Michael Swanger.

Herbert Clark Hoover was, ... presidential candidates featuring Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican Vice President Richard Nixon, JFK looked directly into the television camera ...

Failed assassination attempts, like the plot against Herbert Hoover, dot US history Police rounded up several anarchists and found a railroad map with Hoover’s route marked in red pencil, as ...

Hoover remained an unregenerate anti-New Dealer until his death in 1964, at age 90; he fumed in his final years that John F. Kennedy was espousing “socialism disguised as a welfare state.” ...

A millionaire businessman becomes President in this first try at an elected office. That’s one of 10 fascinating facts about Herbert Hoover, one of the most-interesting occupants of the White House.

Opinion: The U.S. presidents targeted by political violence include the only Iowan to hold the office, Herbert Hoover, writes Michael Swanger.

Among them: the Argentinean plot to assassinate Herbert Hoover, the West Branch native and 31st president of the United States, who was the target of an attempted assassination nearly a century ago.