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Former President Herbert Hoover Dedicates Memorial To The Late Senator Robert A. Taft

Public Domain Stock Footage Former President Herbert Hoover Dedicates Memorial To The Late Senator Robert A. Taft

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keywords: former president herbert hoover, dedication, memorial, late senator robert a. taft

Synopsis: The dedication of the Taft Bell Towner Memorial is attended by former President Herbert Hoover and members of the President's cabinet with more than 5,000 spectators looking on...(read more)

  • Date: 1959
  • Duration: 00:00:33
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: United States

Former President Herbert Hoover Dedicates Memorial To The Late Senator Robert A. Taft

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Former President Herbert Hoover Dedicates Memorial To The Late Senator Robert A. Taft

At the Taft Bell Towner Memorial ceremony attended by Former President Herbert Hoover and members of the President’s cabinet, as well as all the top officers of the Democratic Congress in addition to more than 5,000 spectators. The Taft carillon memorializes a man of Congress. The man who led the Senate during the turbulent Eightieth Congress as Mr. Republican, and who in 1952 lost his final battle for the Presidential nomination to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. He died in July 1953 at the age of sixty-three.