Former President Herbert Hoover, now 88 years old, is
very active and is performing monumental work. I interviewed
him a few years ago in his suite at the Waldorf-Astoria, New
York City. I found him healthy, happy, vigorous, and full of
life and enthusiasm. He was keeping several secretaries busy
handling his correspondence and was himself writing books
of a political and historical nature. Like all great men, I found
him affable, genial, amiable, loving, and most understanding.
His mental acumen and sagacity gave me the thrill of a
lifetime. He is a deeply religious man, and is full of faith in
God and in the triumph of the eternal truth of life. He was
subjected to a barrage of criticism and condemnation in the
years of the great depression, but he weathered the storm and did not grow old in hatred, resentment, ill will, and bitterness.
On the contrary, he went into the silence of his soul, and
communing with the Divine Presence within him, he found
the peace, which is the power at the heart of God.