United States of Americas President Herbert Clark Hoover Emerging from a Building with the First Lady, Lou Henry Hoover Escorted by Male American Officers, 1930s. ...in those first of the threadbare thirties, President Hoover had the unenviable task of leading the nations administration. From "Time to Remember - The Tough Guys", 1930s (Reel 1); a documentary film mainly about life in depression- and gangster-hit America.