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...morning last week President Hoover read this press headline: MARINES BUILDING CAMP FOR HOOVER. The accompanying story implied that the President had ordered the Marine guard of 40 men from the abandoned Mayflower to his Shenandoah National Park camp site to build his Lodge, repair roads. Quickly the President despatched Secretary George Akerson to the Press to make this announcement: "Every nail and every board in the President's camp was paid for by Herbert Hoover out of his own pocket. . . . The roads to the camp were built by the State of Virginia. . . . The Marine detail is the usual...
...Hoover week-end outing: to the Shenandoah National Park Camp. Pastimes: building a dam across a creek to make a swimming pool; pitching horseshoes...
Over rough Virginia roads, last week, a brown army truck jounced, rattled, meandered, lost its way. Its freight: the Hoover fishing tackle. Its destination: the presidential reserve in Shenandoah National Park, where it arrived after nightfall four hours late. President Hoover, already at the preserve, did no fishing last weekend...
...President Hoover left Washington last week for the first time since inauguration. He was gone eleven hours on an inspection of his Virginia fishing preserve in Shenandoah National Park. He rode a horse ten miles through mountain woods, tramped three miles more on foot, picked out three camping sites between Double-top and Fork Mountains on the Upper Rapidan. In a black riding habit, Mrs. Hoover accompanied him part way. Forbidden to follow, newsgatherers and cameramen had a holiday...
...spots were found: 1) an 18-mile stretch of the Rapidan River in Shenandoah National Park, 100 miles west by south of Washington, upon which a presidential fishing lease was arranged; 2) a tract of 1,500 acres known as Catoctin Manor, 50 miles north of Washington, watered by Hunting Creek. This tract (but not the Manor House) was purchased in the name of Lawrence Richey. A rustic cabin will be built to receive President Hoover and his intimates...