<P> In 1947, Truman appointed Hoover to a commission, which elected him chairman, to reorganize the executive departments . This became known as the Hoover Commission . Led by Hoover, the commission recommended changes designed to strengthen the president's ability to manage the federal government . Though Hoover had opposed FDR's concentration of power in the 1930s, he believed that a stronger presidency was required with the advent of the Atomic Age . In 1953, Hoover was appointed to a similar commission by President Dwight D. Eisenhower . Despite the appointment, Hoover disliked Eisenhower, faulting the latter's failure to roll back the New Deal . </P> <P> Despite his advancing years, Hoover continued to work nearly full - time both on writing (among his literary works is The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson, a bestseller, and the first time one former president had ever written a biography about another), as well as overseeing the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, which housed not only his own professional papers, but also those of a number of other former high - ranking governmental and military servants . He also threw himself into fund - raising for the Boys Clubs (now the Boys & Girls Clubs of America), which became his pet charity . </P> <P> In 1958, Congress passed the Former Presidents Act, offering a $25,000 yearly pension to each former president . Hoover took the pension even though he did not need the money; reportedly, he did so to avoid embarrassing Truman, who was the only other living former president and whose precarious financial status played a role in the law's enactment . </P> <P> Hoover was the only living former Republican president between his last day in office in 1933 and Eisenhower's last day in office in 1961 . Starting with the 1948 convention, Hoover was feted as the guest of "farewell" ceremonies, with the unspoken assumption that the aging former president might not survive until the next convention . In 1960, Hoover appeared at his final Republican National Convention . Joking to the delegates, he said, "Apparently, my last three good - byes didn't take ." Although he lived to see the 1964 convention, ill health prevented him from attending, and his absence was acknowledged in presidential nominee Barry Goldwater's acceptance speech . In 1962, Hoover had a malignant intestinal tumor removed . Ten months later he had severe gastrointestinal bleeding and seemed terminally ill and frail, but his mind was clear and he maintained a great deal of correspondence . Although the illness would get worse over time, he refused to be hospitalized . </P>

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