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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Who is this "Great Humanitarian" you speak of?
And, what's that we like to say about presidents these days?
"If it happens on his watch, he owns it!"?
The Crash of '29, right?
Did nothing but get worse while he waited for the "market correction" that never happened.
Okay, so yes, Hoover owns the Great Depression.
There's a reason why he lost to FDR and it wasn't because FDR had a charming smile. It was because Hoover was a loser Republican sitting on his ass waiting for the rich folk to spontaniously resume creating jobs, and as we now know, it did not work. 
Dave |
Hoover had his problems, but he certainly wasn't "sitting on his ass." He took some quite progressive positions. He also tinkered with the economy via Smoot-Hawley Tarrif Act, expanded Federal Civil Service, rescinded private oil leases on federal property, and appointed Cardozo to the Supreme Court. These are not what I would call Laissez-Faire or conservative positions. He never really had a lot of charm to his personality like the NE elitist FDR.