When the members of the Congress created these Presidential Libraries they did a great public service. They made available for research the records of vital periods in American history--and they planted these records in the countryside instead of allowing their concentration on the seaboard.

Already the three libraries of President Roosevelt, President Truman, and President Eisenhower, by their unique documentation, serve this purpose, and today we dedicate a fourth--my own.

Within them are thrilling records of supreme action by the American people, their devotion and sacrifice to their ideals.

Santayana rightly said: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it." These institutions are the repositories of such experience--hot off the griddle.

--HERBERT HOOVER
Dedication of Hoover Library
August 10, 1962

Preface

Introduction

• Arrangement and Contents of Lists
• Application To Use Materials
• Finding Aids
• Restrictions
• Copyright Property Rights
• Citing Historical Materials
• Additional Materials

The Papers of Herbert Hoover

Records of Federal Agencies

Other Related Manuscript Collections

Microfilm

Microfiche

Newspapers

Oral History Transcripts

Map and Travel information