> In 1946, President Harry Truman enlisted Herbert Hoover to tour dozens of countries and coordinate a massive famine relief effort.
For background, it's worth understanding that Hoover founded and ran the Commission for Relief in Belgium during WWI [1], which brought American food past the British blockade and German submarine patrols to prevent famine. And oddly, one of these relief ships was most likely the cause of the largest non-nuclear man-made explosions [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_for_Relief_in_Belgi...