Is Margaret Claire Hoover related to president Hoover?
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Margaret Claire Hoover (born December 11, 1977) is an American political commentator, political strategist, media personality, feminist, gay rights activist, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. President. She is the best-selling author of the book "American Individualism: How A New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party", published by Crown Forum in July 2011. Hoover is currently host of PBS's reboot of the conservative interview show "Firing Line".
Hoover was born in Colorado, the daughter of Jean (Williams), a flight attendant, and Andrew Hoover, a mining engineer.
Margaret Hoover
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Herbert Charles Hoover was married to Margaret Ava Watson. They had 3 children: Margaret Ann Hoover (1926–2011), Herbert Clark "Pete" Hoover III (1927–2010) and Joan Leslie Hoover (1930–2002).
Herbert Hoover Jr.
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Hoover was born in London on July 17, 1907. His elder brother was Herbert Charles Hoover (1903–1969). He graduated from Palo Alto High School, Stanford University, and Harvard Business School. He was married to Margaret Coberly Hoover with two sons, Andrew and Allan Jr., and a daughter, Lou Henry. His grand-daughter (via Andrew) is Margaret Hoover.
Allan Hoover
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Margaret Hoover is the host of "Firing Line with Margaret Hoover", a relaunch of "National Review" founder William F. Buckley Jr.'s public affairs television show, Firing Line that aired on PBS for 33 years, the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host. The show premiered on June 2, 2018 on WNET, which serves the New York metropolitan area, and is the largest PBS market in the country.
Margaret Hoover
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Hoover worked in the White House for the administration of George W. Bush as the Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. She worked on President Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 and was Deputy Finance Director to Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid in 2006–2007. She also worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill for Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart and as Advisor to the Deputy Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security.
Margaret Hoover
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She is on the Board of Overseers at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and on the boards of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association and the Belgian American Educational Foundation. Hoover serves on the Advisory Council of The American Foundation for Equal Rights and GOProud.
Margaret Hoover
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"The New York Times" wrote that, "Under Ms. Hoover's direction, the discourse is civil and substantive." A show review by the "National Review" states, "the reincarnation of Firing Line comes at an interesting time, and a needful one." In the run-up to the show's premier Politico said, "It seems like a great idea, so let's test drive it and see what happens." CNN anchor Poppy Harlow stated that "Firing Line with Margaret Hoover" "is appointment television in my house" on "CNN Newsroom".
Margaret Hoover
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Hoover's work is committed to publicizing her great-grandfather Herbert Hoover's legacy as a humanitarian and pioneer of the international non-governmental organization, as well as his many other achievements. She appeared in a PBS documentary, "Landslide", in 2010.
Margaret Hoover
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In 2013, Hoover was a signatory to an "amicus curiae" brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage in "Hollingsworth v. Perry".
Margaret Hoover
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Hoover was born in Berwick, Illinois to John Calvin Hoover and Margaret Delilah Roadcap Hoover. Growing up poor, he worked with his father on the railroad and on their tenant farm during breaks from school. He described his early economic and political beliefs as a sort of "primitive socialism," which he came to after noticing the inequities of income in Berwick. His father also read the newspaper The Appeal to Reason, which further fostered his left-leaning ideas. Hoover was also an avid reader of history and literature, and compared to the world in his books he saw his small hometown as boring. Looking back on his youth, he once wrote "I wanted to see far places and to have the adventures which both historians and novelists agreed had happened to me through the ages."
Calvin B. Hoover