
Alex Prud'homme, "Dinner with the President"
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Jefferson and the Hoover Vills
Hoover was a successful global mining executive. He understood the value of breaking bread in a way that others didn't. But ironically, he had to contend with depression when people were starving. His fabulous meals at the White House weren't playing well politically while people were starving on the streets. And it became an ironic appetite that he had that although he enjoyed good food, it ultimately worked against him and people begin to throw rotten tomatoes and cauliflower at him.
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