Rapidan Camp
Prime Minister's Cabin

Photograph of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.

The Prime Minister's Cabin was named for Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain who was a guest at Rapidan in 1929. President Hoover brought the Prime Minister to Rapidan to discuss naval disarmament.

Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover at the Prime Minister's cabin at Rapid Camp.

Lesson 2
Discussion Topics

Because it was an historic discussion and the press were not allowed at Rapidan, a political cartoonist drew his idea of what happened between the two leaders. The cartoon carried the caption: "The hope of a more certain peace." What do you think the cartoonist meant?

Illustration of Hoover and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald sitting on a log by the banks of a stream. Hoover is whittling a branch, and MacDonald is smoking a pipe. The front of the Prime Minister's cabin.

Political cartoons have a long history in the free press. Look at several other cartoons drawn during Hoover's administration. Look at the cartoons below, Explain what point the cartoonist was making.

Herbert Hoover rocking two cribs with wailing babies, one labeled Drought Damage and Tarrifs, and the other labeled Business Depression. The cartoon is titled, Awful Job to Quiet Anything Around Here. Cartoon of Herbert Hoover and company, pumping millions of dollars into a skyscraper-sized pump to fund public works projects. Out of the pump spills roads, buildings, industry, and waterways. Cartoon of a smirking Herbert Hoover, with car piled high with luggage, leaving Washington politics for the private life at Rapidan Camp.