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"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned." Herbert Hoover
Main Points:
•Introduces socialist measures
•People unhappy “Hoovervilles”
•Replaced by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 election
Summary:
President Hoover has gone down in history as a totally uncaring chief executive who, while he presided over economic disaster, cared little about his fellow citizens. Accepted the Great Depression as inevitable and something to simply be endured regardless of the level of suffering it caused. Who refused to do absolutely anything to alleviate the incredible suffering all around him for three and one-half long years. While this image was particularly widespread during the 1930s and persists even to this day, it is totally fallacious, misleading, and unjustified."Hooverville" was a deliberately politicized label, emphasizing that President Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party were to be held responsible for the economic crisis and its miseries.
- Herbert Hoover broke with the previous laissez-faire policy for dealing with recessions and depressions.
- Long before the 1929 crash, in the early 1920's, he wrote that he believed that public works projects were a means for government to fight recessions and depressions.
•Introduces socialist measures
•People unhappy “Hoovervilles”
•Replaced by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 election
- A "Hooverville" was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression.
- They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it.
Summary:
President Hoover has gone down in history as a totally uncaring chief executive who, while he presided over economic disaster, cared little about his fellow citizens. Accepted the Great Depression as inevitable and something to simply be endured regardless of the level of suffering it caused. Who refused to do absolutely anything to alleviate the incredible suffering all around him for three and one-half long years. While this image was particularly widespread during the 1930s and persists even to this day, it is totally fallacious, misleading, and unjustified."Hooverville" was a deliberately politicized label, emphasizing that President Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party were to be held responsible for the economic crisis and its miseries.