Herb Hoover is Iowa proud of him?
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Everything fell on the Stock Market Crashed 7 month in his Presidency.
Blame Coolidge or Harding for the Depression not Hoover
Blame Coolidge or Harding for the Depression not Hoover
Yea Hoover stepped into a bad sitch. But he did nothing to fix it either.
You hit the nail on the head: great person.
His presidency was doomed to fail mostly because of Coolidge, but he was certainly not good either.
He would have had to do something in 1932 too, so doubt it. Good man, poor leader. Republican’s Jimmy Carter.
True but....FDR takes over 3 years into the great depression and it's firmly established that the depression isn't "his fault". Hoover was saddled with it even though I think it can be argued it really wasn't "his fault".
The U.S really didn't come out of the great depression until the build-up and resultant economic boost to WW2.
Yes. Sadly his gargantuan humanitarian efforts have become overshadowed by his policies during the Great Depression as President.
Similar to what others are saying, I don’t think the depression was his fault. Nor do I think it was W’s for that matter.
I'm not going to dispute his record as POTUS, but HH was far more than just a good man. The rest of his resume is quite impressive.
Yes and no. We tend to forget that he was the secretary of commerce under Coolidge and was elected president in large part because he was seen as a major architect of the booming ‘20s economy.
But he does also get unfairly blamed for the Depression as well because many of the factors that caused it happened on levels that weren’t fully understood by economists of the time.
He wasn't an awful president. And Iowa holds him in very high regard.
Check out the Words Matter Podcast of August 5th. It's an interview with Margaret Hoover, his granddaughter.
