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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was one of the most qualified and able men to ever have been President of the
United States.
Yet while he was in office, he was one of the most disliked and abused presidents in our history.
Who was this guy?
• orphan• passed around• farm boy• industrious• self-reliant• thrifty
Qualifications to be President• educated
• hard worker
• hero
• successful businessman
• problem solver
• good administrator
• government experience
Was Hoover a Good Guy?
Why do some Good Guys go bad once they
become President?
Was the Great
Depression Hoover’s
fault?
Beyond his control...
• international problems
• unbalanced economy
• distribution of purchasing power
• debt
• overproduction
Why was Hoover in this position?
Was it deserved?
How to Recover?Downplay publics’ fears
Failed to inspire people
NCC Couldn’t meet the need
“Rugged Individualism”
Make it hard to promote gov’t control
RFC Over Cautious
Conferences with businesses
Broken Pledges Asks federal reserve to increase $ cir.
Reserve Board Refuses
Public Works Funding
Consumers vs. Gov’t
ERCA Too late. 1st in U.S. History
Hoover’s Response
Downplay publics’ fears
Failed to inspire people
NCC Couldn’t meet the need
“Rugged Individualism”
Make it hard to promote gov’t control
RFC Over Cautious
Conferences with businesses
Broken Pledges Asks federal reserve to increase $ cir.
Reserve Board Refuses
Public Works Funding
Consumers vs. Gov’t
ERCA Too late. 1st in U.S. History
Bonus Marchers
• veterans’ point
• government’s point
Bonus Marchers
• Gov’t • Veterans
CLEAN ‘EM OUT!!!
• rationale
• action
• reaction
“With the government callous and blundering, with the business elite defensive about the disrepute it had brought on itself, with depression still spreading, Americans began to fear that the whole political and economic system might collapse.”
“Yet they waited patiently, as they had so often before in times of trouble, to see whether the presidential campaign would give them a vote for a brighter future.”
Did the Republicans
“have” to nominate Hoover in
1932?
Who was FDR?
• a rich Roosevelt
• highly educated
• political experience
• Governor of New York
• polio victim
