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Meeting the President

One of John’s favorite tales was about meeting the 31st U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, who served from 1929 to 1933. Born in 1930, John was too young to recall much, but he claimed his mother once saved a little girl's life, earning her medal and a dinner with the president, which the whole family attended.