The White House Christmas Eve Fire of 1929

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On December 24, 1929 President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou were hosting a holiday party, including the children of the President's aides and friends. In the hallway the Marine Band played Christmas songs. The President was enjoying the festivities when Ike Hoover, the White House usher, came into the room and whispered in the president’s ear. The president and his secretaries were needed immediately. Rarely has a crisis so immediately required the attention of the chief executive.
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@jack3inflesh 7 ай бұрын

Boy did this fire get lost in history. The only fire I ever knew about was the 1812 burning by the Brits. Thanks for bringing it to life

@JackThelRipper 7 ай бұрын

Same here! Frickin baffles me that this was never mentioned in any history class?? I swear they should be teaching history about this Country first in school then other parts of the world.

@barbarajolley6578 7 ай бұрын

@@JackThelRipper It seems that the history of "other parts of the world" isn't really taught, either. I have met quite a few young people who are clueless about either.

@mountainjeff 7 ай бұрын

Kinda like Building 7.

@retroguy9494 6 ай бұрын

I don't know how old you guys are, but I turn 60 this year and I knew about it. I remember it being talked about in school back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. It seems to me that today, there is little interest in history even in schools. Personally, I think history NEEDS to be studied so we not only have an understanding of where we are today and why, but also to not make the same mistakes going forward.

@mountainjeff 6 ай бұрын

@@retroguy9494 Yes. I remember that I thought that everything was old news. That "we" were so much smarter now. There is so much to be learned, even from your parents, let alone your grand parents, if you're so lucky to have them. Why are "they" hiding stuff? Serious stuff? I'm talking RECENT history?

@SearTrip 7 ай бұрын

The weird thing is, I just found pictures of the aftermath of this fire last night looking through the Library of Congress website. That was the first I had ever heard if it. And now, today, here’s a video about it.

@timothysworld1028 7 ай бұрын

According to the late White House Historian Williams Seales there was a puppy that was rescued from that fire. One of the Cabinet had a puppy he was keeping in his office to surprise his son for Christmas. interesting side note. Merry Christmas.

@denniswhite166 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas History Guy and crew. And to all my fellow subscribers.

@NoelleTakestheSky 7 ай бұрын

Mrs. Hoover was quite brilliant with how she turned what could have been a traumatizing event for children into something they were able to find fun. Of course, it wouldn’t be fun if something happened to one of their fathers, but she clearly erred on the side of hoping they’d all be okay, so how to salvage the night for the children. I love her for that.

@jeffbangkok 7 ай бұрын

In the 80's I lived on the family dairy where there were no holidays without work. My paycheck came from the highway department where many Christmas eve's I'd be driving a snow plow. My last Christmas in the USA in 1999. Having THG bringing great gifts of history always makes my day. Thank you for all you do. Merry day after from Bangkok

@meminustherandomgooglenumbers 7 ай бұрын

Is it true that it’s super cheap to live in Bangkok? I bought five minutes in one of those truck stop massage chairs for the first time ever yesterday, and now I feel 15 years younger.

@retroguy9494 6 ай бұрын

Well, I'm not surprised. Cows need to be milked even on Christmas day!

@tcschenks 7 ай бұрын

My Grandma told us that her house burnt down in the early 1930s when she was a little girl when the Depression-era Christmas Tree lights caught the Christmas Tree on fire.

@GrumpyMeow-Meow 7 ай бұрын

Thank God she was alright. Those tree fires can reach 1200 degrees within 30 seconds.

@fearthehoneybadger 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas, everyone.

@skyden24195 7 ай бұрын

I had not known of this incident prior to watching this video. Interesting Christmas gift from "The History Guy." Merry Christmas right back at everyone at "The History Guy" and all others who read this comment.

@danimal0921 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas, Professor G and all of your family and crew at THG!!!!! Thank you for making History deserving to be Remembered!!!

@jameshallett5395 7 ай бұрын

THG: You and your team deserve to be remembered this Holiday Season…😊

@shortfusesallee 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas, History Guy. Thank you for all the wonderful videos and the free education!

@garylefevers 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. Happy Holidays to those who do not. God bless.

@briannicholas2757 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to the whole HG family, and all the best in the New Year. Thank you for all that you do to keep us both enlightened and entertained, it is a year long Christmas gift we all treasure.

@JayYoung-ro3vu 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you, yours, and your KZfaq followers! 🙏❤️🎄🙏❤️🎄🙏❤️🎄🙏❤️🎄

@revrup 7 ай бұрын

Delightful story!

@DeconvertedMan 7 ай бұрын

Merry Historymas!

@joelbrown3479 7 ай бұрын

PRICELESS More History...😂😂😂😂

@LowEarthOrbitPilot 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas, History Guy! 🙏🏼 Greetings from Fort Lauderdale, FL 🌴☀️👋🏼😁

@melinnwflorida1762 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to the History Guy and team! Your videos are always enlightening and entertaining. Thank you.

@stevedietrich8936 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to THG and crew, and to all my fellow students as well. I've enjoyed yet another year of THG's interesting videos and hope that there are several more years of videos to come.

@yvonnefochesato4652 7 ай бұрын

Your son is young, what a wonderful way of saving this memory for him.... I'm looking forward to 2024 trip. All the best in 2024....

@shawnharrington9548 7 ай бұрын

A great Christmas gift, thank you. Still waiting for the history of historians.

@MartyFox 7 ай бұрын

A few years ago the White House Historical Association issued a Christmas ornament commemorating the Hoover Administration. It was shaped like a fire truck.

@retroguy9494 6 ай бұрын

I'm surprised it wasn't shaped like a dollar sign!

@Twash50 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas from Washington, D.C.

@garycarpenter2980 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas Season Greetings Happy Holidays Melekalikimaka Joyuex Noel Feliz Navidad Buon Natale to you and your people

@HM2SGT 7 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLpobJeExODTdGQ.htmlsi=4cmN7_NZ5Rr_TELV Delightful version of MeleKalikimaka 🎄🎅😃

@bradleyalexander5821 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting story. Who knew? Merry Christmas to All.

@mamanoneyall51 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas 🎅☃️🇺🇲🗽🦅

@baylorsailor 7 ай бұрын

What an ominous year. Im glad they saved what they could. Its a shame that so much of the work from TR's time was lost. TR is my favorite president in history.

@constipatedinsincity4424 7 ай бұрын

Hey Seasons Beatings 😮one and all!

@okjoe5561 7 ай бұрын

Did they ever figure out what started the fire?

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 7 ай бұрын

Not definitively. The two theories were faulty electrical wiring or a blocked chimney flue.

@laserbeam002 7 ай бұрын

May you and family have a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. I wish you continued success in the coming new year. Thank you.

@richwhitaker1506 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas History Guy. You keep us all grounded. 😂🎅

@davidshaddick3822 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas History Guy!

@meganselva6799 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas 🎄

@jfriend2001 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you and yours History Guy - Keep the swell videos coming & the podcast is Amazing for road trips - keep the both coming !

@mikecooney3379 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas one and all!

@dougwalker4944 7 ай бұрын

.props to the 'Reason for the Season' ...looking like a hippie, inviting everyone to feast. 🙏🙏🙏Peace to All🙏🙏🙏

@RetiredSailor60 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas from Ft Worth TX Lance (History Guy) and everyone watching around the world.

@doughboybellmore2347 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas HG

@stevenmullens511 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas, and God bless us all

@SP-eq9st 7 ай бұрын

Never knew about this. Thank you and Merry Christmas and hopefully a Happy New Year.

@budgiefriend 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you and yours too.

@Bambisgf77 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas 2023 THG & family! 🎄☺️Having a binge session on all your Christmas videos!

@BenjySparky 7 ай бұрын

THG you rock! Merry Christmas to you and yours! Peace

@jbrhel 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you and yours THG.

@maryd9331 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to all! Thanks for all the great info, both serious and entertaining! #PrayForPeace

@-.Steven 7 ай бұрын

Thanks History Guy! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

@eternalfizzer 7 ай бұрын

Thank you and Merry Christmas! What a wonderful team you have!

@rabignall 7 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 🎉

@c.w.johnsonjr6374 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas, History Guy! You should pitch this to Hallmark as a Christmas movie

@susanbergquist3550 7 ай бұрын

A very Merry Christmas and hapy New Year! A big thanks for all of your hard work producing The History Guy, my favorite!!

@TerraVeritas 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas, THG and family!

@E.T.GARAGE 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to THG and everyone else.

@patrickols 7 ай бұрын

Good video, one of your best…Merry Christmas to you sir and your family and everyone else

@zenpunkchef 7 ай бұрын

merry christmas to the history guy and the history family. thank you for all the wonderfull content you provide to us history buffs all year long.

@blues730 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas THG!! All the best from my family to yours.

@scottanddebranelson8419 7 ай бұрын

thanks again and Merry Christmas to you as well sir.

@ronalddevine9587 7 ай бұрын

Thanks Lance, and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours.

@greggbaker7120 7 ай бұрын

Any thoughts on when Christmas Lights on Houses, became the " thing " to do?

@dedcowbowee 7 ай бұрын

That is a great question never thought of that. Happy holidays!

@retroguy9494 6 ай бұрын

That's actually a VERY good question. People had decorated the exterior of their houses long before Christmas lights. The first outdoor Christmas lights appeared in the late 1880's. But they weren't all that popular. Then, in the 1930's, they began to be produced in mass quantities. People began to use them more, perhaps as a way to feel good during the bad years of the depression. But more to your specific question of when they became 'the thing to do', it was in the post World War II era with the advent and boom of 'tract housing.' As more and more suburban communities and neighborhood sprung up, so did decorating the outside of them with Christmas lights, most especially on houses that had 'eaves' as people would decorate the outline of the house with the lights. My own parents used to do that when they built our house in the mid 1950's. Even when I was a child, my father always put the lights around the eaves. I think it wasn't until I was in middle or high school which was in the late 70's that he began to decorate the bushes and shrubs and the like. He did that when he got rid of his old screw in bulbs and made the switch to those little tiny lights which is basically still what most people use today.

@midsue 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to the History Guy and your team 🎄❄️

@GRWINNER 7 ай бұрын

Merry christmas, Mr Lance!🎄♥️

@crispincain5373 7 ай бұрын

Nice to see Tamar and I made the cut for ugly sweaters! Merry Happy New Year too!

@user-hb4ed8ej1r 7 ай бұрын

You, your family and staff deserve every Christmas wish granted with a little extra. Thank you, Merry Christmas from my family to yours.

@bretmelton3823 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

@mikereinhardt4807 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you HG! Thanks for all the great videos, and looking forward to seeing you in the new year!...

@davidruppel1216 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas from Christmas Valley Oregon!

@iamsuzerain3987 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you and the intrepid THG crew🎄

@HarryWHill-GA 7 ай бұрын

Thank you sir. I hope you and yours had a VERY Merry Christmas.

@mikehill9888 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the information 😊

@leev4206 7 ай бұрын

Enjoyed the video Christmas “card” at the end. May you have a joyous Christmas and a blessed year.

@frankgulla2335 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, THG for a nice Christmas story.

@ricke.2205 7 ай бұрын

I'm a little late but, wish y'all at The History Guy had a Merry Christmas. Looking forward to a new year of The History Guy. God bless.

@helenel4126 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas! Never heard of this bit of history before. Thank you.

@HM2SGT 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas! Wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year and thanking you for all the Thrice weekly gifts. 🎅🎄🎁

@Jezeppi1 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you as well. 🎉🎉🎉

@SafetySpooon 7 ай бұрын

Merriest of Xmases & Happiest of New Years to you all over that at THG!!

@arturowagner4728 7 ай бұрын

Feliz Navidad, History Guy and family! Best wishes from Mexico!

@ChristineKane-on8bf 7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Merry Christmas 🎄

@jamesmathews9098 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas Mr. and Mrs THG! God bless you all!

@jeannedouglas9912 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for reminding everyone.

@teaburg 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas History Guy, team, and family.

@bavondale 7 ай бұрын

thank you for the great knowledge you bring

@DFSJR1203 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you and your family.

@deb7518 7 ай бұрын

I had never heard about this! Thanks for the post, and Happy New Year!

@thommysides4616 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas dear brother. God bless you and yours!!!

@darkmist65 7 ай бұрын

And a very merry Christmas to you and yours

@Nani-mw1sn 7 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@DrDirigible 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and your family. Thanks for all the videos you make.

@Michaelbos 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you. 🎅🏻🎄

@rogergoodman8665 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

@kenlodge3399 7 ай бұрын

And a joyous Merry Christmas to you

@haroldmcelwain1604 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas!!!!

@webblong9252 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to Y'all at The History Guy. Ps Smokin hot episode🔥

@geofftimm2291 7 ай бұрын

Have you ever done a history of propaganda? I was taught about it in the 1950s and 60s in public school. Kids now days, seem more victims than skeptics.

@janitorizamped 7 ай бұрын

As someone who is pretty skeptical of propaganda myself, I remember in school being taught about propaganda and always thinking that your generation was incredibly incompetent when it came to being skeptical of propaganda.

@rosezingleman5007 7 ай бұрын

Even the history of propaganda is propagandized.

@matthewlong9369 7 ай бұрын

Propaganda has been around since (probably) before language. The Epic of Gilgamesh is essentially propaganda

@benjamintravis6606 7 ай бұрын

There is a documentary called “faces of the enemy” that you’d probably enjoy. Also, a classic text on historiography, Historian’s Fallacies. Both are rather older and dated but useful if you’re interested in the topic. I totally agree that this would be an informative and important topic to cover.

@suzbone 7 ай бұрын

Adam Curtis' documentary "The Century of the Self" is massively eye-opening about propaganda and public policy.