THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: May 19, 1930

With a few old fishing friends President Hoover for the second time this year went to his Virginia mountain camp, quickly caught 20 trout in the Rapidan. After dinner he sat on the porch with Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Dr. Hubert Work, onetime Republican National Committee Chairman, discussing plans for a Presidential trip in August through the National Parks in the Rocky Mountains. Suggested was the possibility of his making several formal addresses in the West which would strengthen his Administration politically.

Next morning Dr....

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