Collection The Presidents
Biographies & Portraits
President Hoover’s Retreat - Photo 3
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President Hoover’s Retreat - Photo 3
A porch on a cabin at President Hoover's Camp Rapidan in the mountains of Virginia. Hoover often brought the work of the presidency with him to Rapidan and frequently conferred with cabinet members, who were assigned their own cabins.
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