Book  (Feb 2009)  Page(s) 142-143.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Président Herbert Hoover’: Rosiers modernes à grosses fleurs. Parents: ‘Sensation’ x ‘Souvenir de Claudius Pernet’. Obtenteur: Goddington 1930. …c’est un grand et fort arbuste qui projette vers le ciel de puissants gourmands et prend une allure un peu irrégulière et dégingandée, surtout en sol très riche. On ne doit donc le tailler que modérément. De plus, son feuillage, s’il est sain, n’est pas assez abondant. …d’un superbe jaune orangé lavé de carmin. Elle dégage un doux parfum et tient très bien en vase. La floraison, foisonnante au printemps, se renouvelle longuement en automne… Ce rosier est souvent considéré comme le dernier du groupe des Pernetiana.

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 482.  Includes photo(s).
 
President Herbert Hoover (Syn ‘President Hoover’)   Modern, large-flowered hybrid tea.  Pink blend.  Repeat flowering.   President Herbert Hoover has long, pointed blooms that are colored orange, rose and gold and have a lighter reverse.  They are borne on long stems and have a spicy fragrance.   The leathery green foliage is sparse but is healthy, and appears on an extremely vigorous variety that is good for cutting.  Zones 4-9.   Coddington, USA 1930.   ‘Sensation’ x ‘Souvenir de Claudius Pernet’.   National Rose Society Gold medal 1934.   American Rose Society John Cook Medal 1935.   
 

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 177.  
 
A few hybrid teas can be classed as Shrub Roses when well grown.   For back planting, where its gawky stems are covered by lower bushes,  President Herbert Hoover,  raised in 1930,  cannot be beaten as a free-flowering plant up to 6 or 8 feet, loaded with bloom at mid-summer and again later.   It can be seen all over the country, tall enough to show over garden fences, a a rich blend of flame, pink, and orange, while its equally vigorous sport in coppery rose 'Texas Centennial',  has never become popular. 
 

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 332.  Includes photo(s).
 
President Herbert Hoover ('President Hoover') Large-flowered. Description... The flowers are a splendid melange of orange, pink and gold... One of the class Large-flowered Roses, it is still popular in Australia, where Mr. Hoover spent some time as a young mining engineer...

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 332.  Includes photo(s).
 
President Herbert Hoover.   President Hoover.   Large flowered.   The politicians of his day were not very fond of President Hoover, blaming him, unfairly, as it now appears, for the Great Depression and forcing his resignation from office.   Nurserymen are not fond of the rose that L. B. Coddington named for him in 1930.   Their complaint is that it rarely makes the kind of multi-branched plant that their customers expect.   This is not sign of weakness, for it makes an exceptionally tall, healthy bush, with sparse dark green, leathery foliage.   The flowers are a splendid melange of orange, pink and gold, opening paler, very large, and with a strong, spicy fragrance.   One of the classic Large-flowered Roses, it is still popular in Australia, where Mr. Hoover spent some time as a young mining engineer.   ‘Sensation’ x ‘Souvenir de Claudius Pernet’.   Repeat flowering.  Fragrant.   
 

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 84.  
 
Herbert Hoover Introduced on the day Hoover was elected President in 1928, this fragrant orange, rose, and gold hybrid tea became famous as a greenhouse rose... It produced a notable sport in 1935 called Texas Centennial... also Texas Gold...

Article (magazine)  (1991)  Page(s) 33.  
 
Number of petals...as average of ten blooms..'President Herbert Hoover' HT (1930), 25 petals

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 21, 468.  
 
P. 21: [Harkness calls it 'President Hoover'] Whose orange-carmine buds made dazzling buttonholes, fragrant, too.
p. 468: Hybrid Tea, pink blend, 1930, 'Sensation' x 'Souv. De Claudius Pernet'; Coddington; Totty. Bud long, pointed; flowers orange, rose and gold, reverse lighter, double (25 petals), large; fragrant (spicy); foliage leathery; vigorous, tall growth.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 87.  
 
President Herbert Hoover  Tall. Pink & yellow.  Remontant. P7. H3. *
A gaunt bush, which stretched up without quite enough leaves. But at least it grew bigger than most Hybrid Teas, and with very little trouble from diseases. Everyone forgave it for its bright buds, the guard petals orange red, and the tips of the centre petals rings of yellow within them. When the flowers opened, the brightness faded to a more modest yellow and pink, spiced with a lively scent.  The flower stems were long and straight; like 'Mrs G. A. van Rossem' there was no need to wire it.  
'President Hoover 'as it was invariably called in Britain, is still worth growing today if you can obtain it. Nurserymen are not too keen on growing it, as it is one of those roses of which most of the nursery crop is plants of one or two stems, hardly any of three or four. Such roses are malignant influences on nurserymen balance sheets; an efficient producer aims to convert his labour and materials into a production yield of 100 per cent as nearly as he can. An acceptable yield in British rose nurseries out of a hundred rootstocks planted is sixty first quality plants; but this depends on the ruthless exclusion of such roses as 'President Hoover ', which would give about thirty.  Although sixty does not sound very high, it is in fact a very good field of roses that yields it, and it does not need many errors and weak patches to bring the figure below fifty.  You hear growers talking of a good nurseryman's rose, by which they mean one that will yield eighty good plants from a hundred rootstocks planted, given the best of conditions and skill.  A wise grower reduces the worries in his life by growing such roses as the major part of his stock.  The grower who seeks to make a speciality of the rare and difficult roses is treading a path well known in the Rose trade as directed towards bankruptcy. He needs a business economy different from the normal rose nursery.
'President Herbert Hoover' was raised by L. B. Coddington, Murray Hill, New Jersey, from 'Sensation' x 'Souvenir de Claudius Pernet'.  It was introduced in 1930 by the Charles H. Totty Co., Madison, New Jersey.  

Website/Catalog  (1971)  Page(s) 13.  Includes photo(s).
 
Président Hoover  [photo seems incorrect, is not bicolor]