Hoover had ever taken any exercise for the sake of exercise." "Until he played that game," the New York Times later reported, "it is doubtful if Mr. On a month-long goodwill tour of Central and South America, the president-elect noticed Navy sailors standing in a circle throwing around a medicine ball - trying to keep it away from the poor guy in the middle. "And the people who played it were known as the Medicine Ball Cabinet." George Nash, Hoover historianīut, knowing that the Presidency was a difficult job, and remembering that the 29th president, Warren Harding, died in office, Hoover set out to change his ways. It was that he didn't exercise - he just didn't believe in it. Nash has found plenty of evidence to suggest that the trouble wasn't that Hoover was eating too much. "I've seen some photographs of him in the 1920s."īack in 1975, Nash was commissioned by what's now known as the Hoover Presidential Foundation to write the "definitive" biography of Hoover, and he's studied the former president ever since. "No, but he had a bit of a paunch," Hoover historian George Nash says. "These activities were not sufficient materially to affect his physical well-being and the result was that he came to weigh more than he should."Īt about 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, Herbert Hoover wouldn't have been considered obese, at least not by today's standards. And, as The New York Times reported on November 29, 1931: He hadn't made it out to his favorite fishing hole nearly as often as he'd have liked. After more than a decade in Washington, serving in jobs from food administrator to secretary of commerce, Hoover had only found time for the occasional stroll. Herbert Hoover no doubt had a lot of things on his mind on the day he became president. Original Publication: People Disc - HC0289 (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) This article is more than 7 years old. American President Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933) with Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (1855 - 1937) and future President Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964) outside the White House after discussions.
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