Walter Hines Page

born in 1855 AD; died in 1918 AD (age ~63)

US ambassador to the UK during WWI


Quotes (Authored)

"He is a simple, modest, energetic man who began his career in California and will end it in Heaven; and he doesn't want anybody's thanks," Ambassador Page reported to President Wilson at the start of the Belgian Relief.

  • by Eugene Lyons, Walter Hines Page
  • about Herbert Hoover
  • Life is worth more, to, for knowing Hoover. But for him Belgium would now be starved... he's a simple, modest energetic little man who began his career in California and will end it in Heaven, and he doesn't want anybody's thanks

  • by William E. Leuchtenburg, Walter Hines Page
  • about Herbert Hoover