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 | JohnSpina (18)
07/14/2006 |  Hoover proved the Peter Principle.A man rises to the level of his incompetence.He was a beloved and successful American who became president..and then the stuff hit the fan with the Great Depression.Hoover was a believer in small government-as am I-but while his motives were admirable,his confusion and dithering made people lose confidence in both him and the country itself.People were suffering and they felt that the president frankly did not care.Then Hoover tried to do a lot,but it was too late and he could not regain the trustof the American people.
After Hoover got voted out and was replaced by a chimpanzee-sorry,just FDR-the country STILL had economic hard times.A misconception about the New Deal is/was that it got us out of the Depression.It really did no such thing.The difference is that Roosevelt talked up his program and DID give people confidence in the country.This had a small placebo effect for the economy.Neither man did a lot to get us out of the Depression-FDR's ideas in particular were for the most part an exercise in futility-but Hoover's main failing was lack of leadership in a crisis...and I will admit that Roosevelt had this quality that Hoover lacked.
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 | jamestkirk (24)
12/21/2005 | Moreso a victim of the times and what was set in place economically by the Coolidge administration. Coolidge could have done more to prevent the stock market crash, but he was not proactive. Hoover, likewise, was also not proactive in dealing with the aftermath of the stock market crash.
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 | Drummond (60)
11/29/2005 | Hahahahahahahaha!!!!
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 | GenghisTheHun (177)
09/07/2005 | Never elect an engineer to anything!
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| stolypin (3)
06/06/2005 | This guy's interventionist fiscal policies turned a recession into the Great Depression. One of the greatest myths spread first by New Deal intellectuals and later by academia was that Hoover supported laize-faire economic policies to combat the depression, but much of Roosevelt's New Deal was simply Hoover policies taken to the extreme, the Civilian Conservation Corp for example. And the New Deal sunk a slowly recovering economy in '32 back into a decade long depression. If Hoover had listened to his (and Coolidge's and Harding's) Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, and let the down turn correct itself naturally, the Great Depression could have been a minor hickup in an otherwise period of economic expansion. And I haven't even begun to mention the disasterous Smoot-Hawley Tariffs! The only reason Hoover doesn't get a one star is because he did not take interventionism to its socialist conclusion. That task fell to his successor, Franklin Roosevelt, our American president-for-life dictator.
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