Friday, July 8: Day Four - Hoover Museum

The car trip took a long time—I just slept and slept.

And I thought today had nothing special, until we finished the visit to the Herbert Hoover Museum.

Hoover's birthplace

As you know I am a science student, and we seldom listen to the teachers carefully on the history, political and geography classes. So we just knew a little about Hoover before this trip. I just knew after Hoover came to power, he needed to catch up with the economic crisis in the world, and the U.S. economy in the abyss, and he had expected to rely on scientific potential to open up a "new era" of hope. Although he made many attempts, the crisis grew day by day; aggravated, he painstakingly countermeasured. The situation got out of hand, and finally, he failed to be reelected. In the 1932 election, he was beat by the Democratic Party's Roosevelt. He was not very successful to my knowledge, but this thought quite changed today.

He earned a lot of money in China and also made contributions to China. He also gave help to plenty of American families. Lots of famous books were written from his hands.

I think to be a successful man doesn’t mean you should be a perfect leader. The thing I am thinking is that all the successful men know what they should do in the situation. Sometimes they should stand out and save the country. Sometimes the thing they need to do may be just relax themselves and enjoy their life. Herbert Hoover did it; he also lived a happy life worthy of respect—that’s quite enough for a man. That’s also why we set up a museum to honor him.

To him salute.

-Tian Ge Yuan, China