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Herbert Hoover

By: History.com Editors

Updated: March 29, 2022 | Original: October 29, 2009

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), America’s 31st president, took office in 1929, the year the U.S. economy plummeted into the Great Depression. Although his predecessors’ policies undoubtedly contributed to the crisis, which lasted over a decade, Hoover bore much of the blame in the minds of the American people. 

As the Depression deepened, Hoover failed to recognize the severity of the situation or leverage the power of the federal government to squarely address it. A successful mining engineer before entering politics, the Iowa-born president was widely viewed as callous and insensitive toward the suffering of millions of desperate Americans. As a result, Hoover was soundly defeated in the 1932 presidential election by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945).

Early Years

Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa–the first U.S. president to be born west of the Mississippi River. He was the second of three children in a family of Quakers , who valued honesty, industriousness and simplicity. His father, Jesse Clark Hoover (1846-80), worked as a blacksmith, and his mother, Hulda Minthorn Hoover (1848-84), was a teacher. Orphaned at age nine, Hoover was raised primarily by an uncle in Oregon .

Did you know? On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a law that made "The Star-Spangled Banner," based on an 1814 poem by Francis Scott Key (1779-1843), America's national anthem.

After attending Quaker schools, Hoover became part of the first class to enter Stanford University when it opened in 1891. He graduated four years later with a degree in geology and launched a lucrative career as a mining engineer. Intelligent and hardworking, Hoover traveled all over the world to find valuable mineral deposits and establish business enterprises to extract the resources. His work made him a multimillionaire. On February 10, 1899, Hoover married his college sweetheart, Lou Henry (1874-1944), and the couple had two sons, Herbert (1903-69) and Allan Henry (1907-93).

Humanitarian Work

At the start of World War I (1914-18), Hoover dedicated his talents to humanitarian work. He helped 120,000 stranded American tourists return home from Europe when the hostilities broke out and coordinated the delivery of food and supplies to citizens of Belgium after that country was overrun by Germany.

When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) appointed Hoover head of the Food Administration. Hoover encouraged Americans to reduce their consumption of meat and other commodities in order to ensure a steady supply of food and clothing for the Allied troops. 

Once the war ended, Hoover, as head of the American Relief Administration, arranged shipments of food and aid to war-ravaged Europe. He earned worldwide acclaim for his humanitarian efforts, as well as thousands of appreciative letters from people across Europe who benefited from the free meals known as “Hoover lunches.”

Hoover’s success earned him an appointment as secretary of commerce under President Warren Harding (1865-1923), and he continued in this position under President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933). During the fast-paced modernization of the 1920s, Hoover played an active role in organizing the fledgling radio broadcasting and civilian aviation industries, and also laid the groundwork for the construction of a huge dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada . (Named after Hoover, the dam opened in 1936.)

The Great Depression

In the U.S. presidential election of 1928, Hoover ran as the Republican Party’s nominee. Promising to bring continued peace and prosperity to the nation, he carried 40 states and defeated Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944), the governor of New York , by a record margin of 444-87 electoral votes. “I have no fears for the future of our country,” Hoover declared in his inaugural address. “It is bright with hope.”

On October 24, 1929–only seven months after Hoover took office–a precipitous drop in the value of the U.S. stock market sent the economy spiraling downward and signaled the start of the Great Depression . Banks and businesses failed across the country. Nationwide unemployment rates rose from 3 percent in 1929 to 23 percent in 1932. Millions of Americans lost their jobs, homes and savings. Many people were forced to wait in bread lines for food and to live in squalid shantytowns known derisively as Hoovervilles .

Hoover undertook various measures designed to stimulate the economy, and a few of the programs he introduced became key components of later relief efforts. However, Hoover’s response to the crisis was constrained by his conservative political philosophy. He believed in a limited role for government and worried that excessive federal intervention posed a threat to capitalism and individualism. He felt that assistance should be handled on a local, voluntary basis. Accordingly, Hoover vetoed several bills that would have provided direct relief to struggling Americans. “Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury,” he explained in his 1930 State of the Union address.

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Post-Presidential Years

The Depression worsened throughout Hoover’s term in office, and critics increasingly portrayed him as indifferent to the suffering of the American people. By the time of the 1932 presidential election, Hoover had become a deeply unpopular–even reviled–figure across much of the country. Carrying only six states, he was soundly defeated by Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt , the governor of New York, who promised to enact a slate of progressive reforms and economic relief programs that he described as a New Deal for the American people.

After leaving office, Hoover emerged as a prominent critic of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. He wrote articles and books outlining his conservative political views and warning about the dangers of investing too much power in the federal government. Hoover returned to public service in the 1950s, serving on commissions aimed at increasing government efficiency for presidents Harry Truman (1884-1972) and Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969). 

By the time Hoover died at age 90 on October 20, 1964, in New York City , assessments of his legacy had grown more favorable. Noting that after Hoover left the White House the Great Depression continued for eight more years despite Roosevelt’s active intervention, some historians have argued for a more sympathetic appraisal of Hoover’s presidency.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, whose term was notably marked by the stock market crash of 1929 and the beginnings of the Great Depression.

Herbert Hoover

(1874-1964)

Who Was Herbert Hoover?

Early years.

Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa, and was the first president born west of the Mississippi River. When Hoover was 6 years old, his father died. Three years later his mother also died, and Hoover was then raised in Oregon by his maternal aunt and uncle.

Humanitarian Efforts

A lifelong humanitarian, as an adult, Hoover was in China during the Boxer Rebellion (1900), and he organized the relief efforts for trapped foreigners. Four years later, he helped Americans stranded in Europe when World War I began, and for three years after, he headed the Commission for Relief in Belgium, helping to procure food for 9 million Belgians in the aftermath of the massive encroachment of German troops. His effectiveness prompted President Woodrow Wilson to appoint Hoover head of the Food Administration, which diverted American agricultural products overseas to American troops.

Hoover next served as head of the American Relief Administration, which helped post-WWI Europe feed its people. President Warren G. Harding then picked Hoover to be his secretary of commerce, as did President Calvin Coolidge after him. In this role, he was the driving force behind such projects as the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Hoover Dam.

President and Great Depression

When President Coolidge decided not to run for another term, Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate in 1928. He ran against New York governor Alfred E. Smith and won in a landslide. During Hoover’s campaign, he famously said, “We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land,” but less than a year later the stock market crash of 1929 struck, and the worst economic downturn in American history was upon Hoover’s administration.

Hoover’s plan to attack the Great Depression had as its backbone tax cuts and public works projects: keep more money in people’s pockets, and keep people working. He also contacted business leaders and urged them not to cut wages or lay off workers, and in 1932, he backed the establishment of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a lending institution intended to help banks and industries in their recovery efforts. Unfortunately, none of these approaches helped the foundering economy, and Hoover watched helplessly while businesses closed their doors and Americans sank into poverty. He also made a critical mistake in signing into law the Smoot-Hawley Act, which raised taxes on imports and prompted foreign nations to turn their backs on American-made goods when the country desperately needed sales.

When the election of 1932 came around, Hoover blamed the depression on factors beyond his control, but the public either didn’t care or wasn’t buying it, and he was trounced by Franklin D. Roosevelt .

Post-Presidency and Death

In the ensuing years, Hoover continually attacked government programs such as FDR’s New Deal in books he wrote, such as The Challenge to Liberty (1934) and the eight-volume Addresses Upon the American Road (1936–1961). He also delivered speeches on the matter, including “Against the Proposed New Deal” (1932) and “The New Deal and European Collectivism” (1936).

Hoover opposed American entry into World War II (until Pearl Harbor was attacked) and condemned American involvement in the Korean and Vietnam wars. He was working on another book when he died in New York City in 1964, at age 90.

The 31st president has been the subject of several biographies, including a multi-volume work by historian George H. Nash. In 2017, journalist Kenneth Whyte introduced a new profile to the collection, Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times , which explored the former president's lengthy record of public service and the events that shaped his personality and decision-making.

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  • Birth date: August 10, 1874
  • Birth State: Iowa
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  • Death date: October 20, 1964
  • Death State: New York
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  • FDR and the Great Depression
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  • The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in US history. It began in 1929 and did not abate until the end of the 1930s.
  • The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1933, unemployment was at 25 percent and more than 5,000 banks had gone out of business.
  • Although President Herbert Hoover attempted to spark growth in the economy through measures like the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, these measures did little to solve the crisis.
  • Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in November 1932. Inaugurated as president in March 1933, Roosevelt’s New Deal offered a new approach to the Great Depression.

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Herbert Hoover’s Background

Herbert Hoover biographer George Nash discussed Hoover's early life.

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This lesson plan about President Herbert Hoover and his response to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 opens with a reflective question that asks students to reflect on their prior knowledge of the Great Depression. Students then watch, analyze, and respond to an introductory video clip that presents an overview of Hoover's background before ascending to public office. Next, students watch, analyze, and respond to two video clips that provide background information on Hoover's political career and 1928 campaign for the presidency. Students then engage in an engagement activity, where they view five video clips that provide detail about the stock market crash, describe Hoover's initial response and subsequent public reaction, and why Hoover was distrusted by politicians in both parties. Students then view and analyze two video clips that detail the steps that Hoover took as the economic crisis worsened. Then, students review data from C-SPAN Presidential Historians Survey and conduct research in an application activity where they prepare a presentation arguing whether or not they agree with Hoover's below average score. The lesson concludes with two reflective video clips detailing Hoover's life after the presidency and his legacies and a summative writing prompt.

This lesson offers several options for you to use with your students whether you are teaching in class, using a hybrid model, or engaging through distance learning. It can be completed in steps as a class or students can move at their own pace and complete the activities independently.

You can post links to the videos in the lesson along with the related handout and engage in discussion to share responses on a discussion board or learning management system.

You can also save and share the following Google resource for students to use with this lesson.

Handout: Graphic Organizer (Google Doc).

In Google, choose "File" then "Make a Copy" to get your own copy. You can make any needed adjustments in the instructions such as which activities students need to complete, when it is due, etc. and then make it available to them via Google.

Pose the following brainstorming question to your students, directing them to record their responses in their graphic organizer, share with a partner, and then with the class if they choose.

  • What was the Great Depression, and what was/were the cause(s)?

INTRODUCTION

Play the following introductory video clip for your students. Direct your students to answer the related questions on their graphic organizer. Note: all clips in this lesson feature Herbert Hoover biographer George Nash speaking at the Acton Institute.

Clip #1: Herbert Hoover's Background (1:30).

  • Based on the clip, when and where was Herbert Hoover born?
  • According to George Nash, what work was Hoover engaged with in 1914?
  • What did Hoover become after the outbreak of World War I, according to Nash?

Direct your students to their graphic organizers to view and define the vocabulary terms that will appear in the lesson in the chart in their graphic organizer handout. The vocabulary words are also listed to the right on this webpage. We recommend having your students define and present the terms in a jigsaw activity to save time.

Depending on time and resources, you may consider having your students define and present the terms in a Frayer's Model activity , where each student takes one or two items. Students can then post their models around the room for reference throughout the lesson. Note: This is not an all-encompassing list of terms included in each video. We recommend you previewing the video clips to determine any necessary additions/subtractions to this list for your specific students.

Direct students to the background section of their graphic organizers. Instruct your students to view the two video clips that provide background information on Hoover's political career and 1928 campaign for the presidency. Direct your students to share their findings with a partner, small group, or the class when finished.

Clip #2: The 1920s (2:58).

  • What was Herbert Hoover “called” during the 1920s?
  • In which role did Hoover become “one of three of four most influential men in U.S. Government?”
  • Summarize Hoover’s philosophy of “American Individualism.”
  • According to George Nash, what action did Hoover take in 1921 and what was the long term impact?
  • How could the national economy be “managed,” according to Hoover?

Clip #3: The 1928 Election (1:28).

  • How was Herbert Hoover viewed by the public on the eve of the 1928 Presidential Election, according to George Nash?
  • View the Master of Emergencies video (YouTube) that Nash mentions. Skim through the video and list three things you learned about Hoover from watching the video.
  • What does Nash mean when he says that Hoover was “not as sanguine” in private?
  • Based on the clip, what did Hoover try to persuade the Federal Reserve to do?

Direct students to the engagement section of their graphic organizers. Instruct your students to view the five video clips that provide detail about the stock market crash, describe Hoover's initial response and subsequent public reaction, and why Hoover was distrusted by politicians in both parties. Direct your students to share their findings with a partner, small group, or the class when finished.

Clip #4: The Crash and Intervention (3:12).

  • What was President Herbert Hoover’s “first response” to the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
  • According to George Nash, what did Hoover “realize” about the “national psyche?”
  • How did Hoover “intervene” in the economic and psychological issues?
  • What did Hoover “promise” in response to expected increases in unemployment?

Clip #5: Public Reaction (2:31).

  • What was President Herbert Hoover “proud of,” according to George Nash?
  • Based on the clip, what did Hoover do on March 7th, 1930 and at later events?
  • Who “shared” Hoover’s belief of success, and how were Hoover’s claims “vindicated?”

Clip #6: A Tariff and a Drought (2:19).

  • What did Congress “enact” in June 1930?
  • According to George Nash, which “provision” of the law gave President Herbert Hoover “solace?” Based on the clip, summarize the effect of the law.
  • What happened across the Midwest and South in the 1930s?
  • Based on the clip, of what was Hoover “accused” in 1930?

Clip #7: Distrusted (2:50).

  • Why did “politicians in both parties” distrust President Herbert Hoover?
  • According to George Nash, what did Hoover believe about Congress?
  • Based on the clip, how did Hoover respond as the “political headwinds against him gathered force?”
  • What did Hoover mean when he said the government should encourage the “voluntary cooperation of the community?”

Clip #8: Bank Collapses (3:01).

  • Why did the “pace” of bank failures quicken in 1931?
  • What decision “triggered a financial tsunami” across the United States?
  • How many U.S. banks collapsed in 1931, according to George Nash?
  • Based on the clip, how did President Herbert Hoover try to respond to the bank failure crisis? What impact did these efforts have?

Direct students to the analysis section of their graphic organizers. Instruct your students to view the two video clips that detail the steps that Hoover took as the economic crisis worsened. Direct your students to share their findings with a partner, small group, or the class when finished.

Clip #9: Help from Congress (3:06).

  • Who did President Herbert Hoover call upon in December 1931, according to George Nash?
  • Based on the clip, what did Hoover ask to be done?
  • Summarize the impact of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, as described in the clip.
  • What does Nash mean when he says Hoover donned “heavy armor of fiscal conservatism?” Who shared his views?

Clip #10: Human Misery (3:55).

  • What percentage of the American labor force was “out of work” by mid-1932?
  • According to George Nash, what had President Herbert Hoover resisted? What did he encourage instead, and why?
  • Based on the clip, what did Hoover establish in August 1931? What was the goal of this effort and what was its impact?
  • What program did Hoover propose in the spring of 1932 and what did the subsequent legislation “authorize?”

APPLICATION

C-SPAN regularly gathers a panel of leading historians to rank each American President in the C-SPAN Presidential Historians Survey. The most recent edition of the survey from 2021 ranks President Herbert Hoover at 36th of all the presidents: 2021 Survey Results (C-SPAN).

Have your students explore both the criteria for the survey scores and President Herbert Hoover’s historical rankings (C-SPAN). Then, encourage your students to consider their learning from this lesson and reflect on whether or not they agree with Hoover's scores in the current and past surveys. Using the chart in their graphic organizers as a guide, have your students conduct additional research to prove their argument. Have your students prepare a brief presentation to share with their peers, making sure to address the following criteria:

  • Public Persuasion
  • Crisis Leadership
  • Economic Management
  • Administrative Skills
  • Relations with Congress
  • Vision/Setting an Agenda
  • Performance Within Context of Times.

After students finishing sharing their presentations from the application section of the lesson, direct them to the reflection section of their graphic organizers. Instruct your students to view the two video clips that detail Hoover's life after the presidency and his legacies. Direct your students to share their findings with a partner, small group, or the class when finished.

Clip #11: The 1932 Election (2:27).

  • What did President Herbert Hoover “reaffirm” as he campaigned for reelection?
  • According to George Nash, what did Hoover “warn” during the campaign?
  • Based on the clip, what work did Hoover undertake from 1933 until his death? Why?
  • How did Hoover become “a man of the right?”

Clip #12: Later Life and Legacy (5:38).

  • What was among “the most enduring” of President Herbert Hoover’s legacies?
  • According to George Nash, why do historians deem Hoover’s presidency as a failure?
  • Summarize the “competing narrative” proposed by free market economists, as described in the clip.
  • Describe the third narrative of Hoover’s presidency, as shared by Nash.
  • How was Hoover “our modern Sisyphus?”

After your students are finished with presenting their findings from the application section of the lesson, direct them to complete the final culminating writing prompt in their graphic organizers, and have students share their responses, comparing their perspectives with their classmates' perspectives: Having now learned about President Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression, describe whether his efforts positively or negatively impacted the country during the era. Be sure to include evidence from the video clips in the lesson to support your argument.

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Remarks at presentation to president hoover of a citation for distinguished civilian service..

President Hoover, Mr. Chairman, and My Friends:

You see, there was some excuse for my question addressed to the Chairman because I had been assigned a very specific and succinct part of this program. But I did feel I wanted to express a few personal sentiments with which I hope most of you can agree.

First, my purpose was to pay a great tribute--as great a tribute as I am capable of delivering--to the youthfulness of our guest of honor, Mr. Hoover.

Someone said that any man is young who retains his optimism. And optimism, I believe, is a capacity for looking toward the future with hope and enthusiasm.

Now our guest of honor has shown his optimism twice. He has headed great commissions determined to deliver to us better service in the government that we must maintain, and at less cost to ourselves. He remains optimistic, or he would not have devoted so many years of his life to this work.

And in his case, I think, there would be a great deal of excuse-at least at times I feel so--for an opposite conclusion.

He spent many years in public service, and I know something of some of the frustrations and difficulties he had during at least four years of that service.

He knows what it means to attempt to install new methods, new procedures, in a great hierarchy, in a great bureaucracy.

Now, I would not have any of you think that your public servants in the Civil Service and in other areas are not good people. Indeed they are. Some of them are extraordinarily intelligent and capable. But they are a very large group that has been accustomed to operate according to certain procedures--certain methods. We do it ourselves, in our daily lives. We become creatures of habit.

I won't venture to remark about the ladies. But I would bet any man here puts the same foot into his trousers first every morning.

In all our daily lives you can find that we fall into habits. Take the one of eating. How many people are there here, I wonder, whose doctors have not asked them to keep their weight down, but who go on indulging themselves?

The same way in government. We become used to these procedures and practices, and they involve these millions of people. I declare, if you could provide for the government, through the Bureau of the Budget, a new accounting system, with the utmost expedition and efficiency, it would certainly take you many months before you could reach the last echelon of government. And why not? They will plead: "Why, we have blank forms printed for the next three years; we are all ready; we will have to re-train our clerks." You would have every good reason in the world for not doing this hastily.

Our guest of honor has never lost his enthusiasm for better government through all this kind of thing.

I merely wanted to point out, this is an unusual kind of enthusiasm and leadership, from which all of us benefit.

And may I say that every one of the recommendations submitted by this latest Hoover Commission has been the subject of earnest study. They have been monitored within the government by one of our noted businessmen, Mr. Kestnbaum, in order to get every one of them implemented as rapidly as possible. I am first to admit that that speed has not been sufficient and all we could ask. But it is progress, and it will continue. That I promise this body, which has worked so hard to bring it about.

And now after that, the real purpose of my coming to this platform to speak: I have been privileged to get ready for Mr. Hoover a short Citation which I shall now read.

HERBERT HOOVER

STATESMAN AND CITIZEN

Honored in every field of human endeavor:

Science, Business, Government, Education, Art, Charity,

I address the Nation's recognition of a crowning achievement. To a searching examination of the Executive Branch of the Government you have freely applied unparalleled knowledge. Inspired by your concern for the whole truth, disciplined by your unremitting insistence on accuracy, united by your respect for majority opinion, your Commissions have wrought incalculable good. Through your efforts ours will be a stronger country. In so adding strength to the American Republic, you have added strength to the free world. We are grateful.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Note: President Eisenhower made this presentation at a luncheon given by the Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C., on February 4, 1957. His opening words "Mr. Chairman" referred to Clarence Francis, Chairman of the Committee. Mr. Hoover's remarks follow:

Mr. President, fellow members of this Citizens Committee:

I have only to express my deep emotion and appreciation for the extraordinary honor which the President has just conferred upon me. And I also want to express to him the appreciation which you have for the constant support that he has given to the work of this body of citizens.

And I have the idea that when he has finished this term, he will certainly merit even a greater tribute than that which has come to me.

For he will have, I hope, a successor who will have a high appreciation of so great a national leader.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Remarks at Presentation to President Hoover of a Citation for Distinguished Civilian Service. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234070

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WEST BRANCH, IOWA- Former President Herbert Hoover died in New York at the age of 90 on October 20, 1964. Five days later he was buried on a knoll overlooking his birthplace in West Branch, Iowa. Thousands paid their respects along the route from the airport in Cedar Rapids as an honor guard transported President Hoover to his burial place at what is now Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. His death offered an opportunity to reflect on his presidency, his long career of public service, and his numerous personal achievements. How did Iowa and the world remember him?

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  • The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
  • What were Hoovers policies and how did these affect his approach to dealing with the depression
  • What measures did Hoover take to help solve the consequences of the depression
  • Why Hoover became so unpopular
  • The role Hoover played in his own defeat
  • Hoover was a REPUBLICAN and was elected into power in 1928.
  • Hoover talked about how We want a nation of home owners and farm ownerswe want to see their savings protectedwe want to see them in steady jobs.
  • Little did he know the Wall Street Crash was just around the corner
  • There had been a previous depression in 1921, and, without government interference, the economy had recovered.
  • Many people including Hoover believed this would happen again
  • Wall Street collapsed
  • America was in the midst of a severe depression
  • Millions were unemployed
  • Millions of were lost
  • Farmers lost their farms
  • Hoover was a Republican who did not approve of government interference in the economy.
  • He believed in
  • This meant the government should not interfere in the nations government
  • Hoover also believed in
  • This was based on the belief that an individual should take responsibility for his/her own welfare the American way of life would be destroyed if the government started paying unemployment benefit or tried to create jobs for people.
  • In early 1929 most Americans would have agreed with Hoover
  • Hoovers business as usual policy began to lose popularity as the effects of the Depression deepened and it became obvious the economy was not going to sort itself out.
  • In Hoover we trusted now we are busted became a famous slogan in 1932.
  • It would be wrong to assume Hoover was hard-hearted or that he did not care.
  • Hoover made substantial private contributions to charity.
  • However, he believed strongly that it was not in the countrys interest for the government to intervene.
  • His government did also introduce some measures to deal with the Depression.
  • Called business, farm and union leaders to Washington to agree to work together to beat the Depression.
  • Cut taxes by 160 million and asked Congress to give him 423 million to undertake huge public works.
  • Encouraged Congress to pass the Agricultural Marketing Act which set up the Farm Board with a budget of 500 million to help farmers.
  • Agreed to the Hawley Smoot Tariff which increased taxes on foreign goods and made them less attractive to American buyers.
  • Signed a bill authorising the RFC to spend 300 million to provide shelter, clothing and food for the unemployed.
  • Agreed the Emergency Relief and Construction Act which provided 1.5 billion for public works schemes.
  • Set up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) to help finance companies and banks which were in financial difficulties. During 1932 it loaned 1,500,000, mostly to banks,
  • Despite these measures they did very little to help those suffering from the most severe effects of the Depression.
  • It was too little to late for America.
  • The Hawley-Smoot Tariff back fired making in more difficult for American business to export goods abroad.
  • The money given to states to provide employment was only loaned and had to be repaid in later years.
  • In 1932, 25,000 First World War veterans marched to Washington to demand their bonus payment of 500.
  • Some marchers set up camps in Washington.
  • Hoover responded by calling in the army and driving the men out by tear gas and fixed bayonets.
  • The camp was the burned to the ground.
  • The incident made the President even more unpopular.
  • In 1932 Hoover lost the Presidential election to the Democratic candidate Franklin Roosevelt. Explain the role Hoover played in his own defeat.
  • Using textbooks (Walsh p.216-217/OCR p.158-159) make notes on Hoovers opponent, Roosevelt. Why was was he a good choice in 1932?

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Biden comparing Trump to Herbert Hoover a ‘cheap shot’, descendant says

Margaret Hoover takes issue with president and rival for using predecessor who battled Great Depression as example of failure

Joe Biden is taking a “cheap shot” whenever he gleefully compares Donald Trump to Herbert Hoover, a prominent political commentator said, defending the 31st president whose single term in office coincided with the Great Depression.

“It’s such a cheap shot,” Margaret Hoover , the president’s great-granddaughter and a commentator for CNN and PBS, told Politico . “If a person spent a minute studying Herbert Hoover’s contributions, one would come to see that these political jabs have obscured a shining example of an uncommon public servant.”

Hoover was a mining engineer before entering government and earning the nickname “ the Great Humanitarian ”, for his work to keep allied nations fed during the first world war. A Republican, he decisively defeated the New York governor Al Smith to win the White House in 1928.

According to the White House website , Hoover’s “opponents in Congress … unfairly painted him as a callous and cruel president” as he sought to cope with the global economic catastrophe that struck less than a year after the start of his term.

Margaret Hoover was also accusing Trump of using her ancestor’s name in vain.

Last month, Trump said he hoped the US economy would crash “during this next 12 months” – before his seemingly inevitable election rematch with Biden – “because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover. The one president I just don’t want to be, Herbert Hoover.”

Biden, who had already compared Trump to Hoover, seized on Trump’s remark, saying in social media video : “He doesn’t want to be Herbert Hoover. He has to understand, he’s already Herbert Hoover. He’s the only other president who lost jobs during his term.”

Trump’s time in office, between 2017 and 2021, ended in the chaos of Covid, a pandemic that battered the global economy.

Biden, Politico pointed out, has used the Hoover comparison repeatedly.

Margaret Hoover said : “I will personally offer either Donald Trump or Joe Biden – or any elected official of either party – a tour of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum [in West Branch, Iowa]. This is an open invitation.”

Politico found other Hoover defenders including the historian George Nash , who said: “You don’t expect most political figures to have deep knowledge of these matters so [Biden and Trump] are looking for quick stereotypes to invoke. These are very superficial statements that both individuals have made.”

Lauren Hitt, a Biden campaign spokesperson, apologised “for any undue pain we caused Herbert Hoover by lumping him in with Donald Trump. While they do share the worst jobs record in American history, Hoover never said he wanted the economy to crash to improve his own political fortune – an important distinction.”

In its latest ranking of US presidents, issued in 2022 , the Siena College Research Institute places Hoover 37th out of 45. The 141 presidential scholars behind the list put Trump six places lower, ahead of only James Buchanan, who failed to stop the civil war, and Andrew Johnson, the first president ever impeached. Not having completed a term in office, Biden does not yet place.

According to Siena, the best president is Franklin D Roosevelt, Hoover’s successor who steered the US through the Depression and the second world war, and who Biden has claimed as an inspiration for his work in succession to Covid and Trump.

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Hoover Library & Archives Unveils Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has unveiled Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America , a new exhibition that illustrates the historic Watergate scandal from the perspectives of those who uncovered, investigated, and prosecuted it, leading to the first-ever resignation of an American president. The exhibition is on display in the Lou Henry Hoover Gallery in Hoover Tower at Stanford University through Sunday, August 11.

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Hoover Institution Library & Archives (Stanford, CA) — The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has unveiled Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America , a new exhibition that illustrates the historic Watergate scandal from the perspectives of those who uncovered, investigated, and prosecuted it, leading to the first-ever resignation of an American president. The exhibition is on display in the Lou Henry Hoover Gallery in Hoover Tower at Stanford University through Sunday, August 11.

Fifty years ago, a political scandal reaching the highest levels of power in the United States government tested the foundations of American liberal democracy and its executive office. Named for a complex of office buildings and residences in Washington, DC, the Watergate affair involved a bungled break-in in June 1972 at the Democratic Party’s National Committee headquarters located there. The break-in was secretly sponsored by officials in President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign committee.

The cover-up that followed resulted in investigative news reports, the appointment of a special prosecutor, televised Senate hearings, and ultimately, impeachment proceedings against Nixon and criminal convictions of top White House and campaign aides.

Drawing on documents, illustrations, books, and photographs from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Un-Presidented explores how the organs of a functioning democracy—including judicial processes, a free press, and legislative oversight—bring accountability and fight corruption even among the most powerful citizens of the nation.

Eric Wakin , deputy director of the Hoover Institution and Everett and Jane Hauck Director of Library & Archives, said, “The fiftieth anniversary of Watergate reminds us of a moment in American history when our institutions, and the checks and balances of our system, eventually proved capable of addressing malfeasance. The Hoover Institution Library & Archives is proud to collect, preserve, and display some of the valuable archival material that tells the story of the Watergate scandal from the perspectives of individuals who were involved. Visitors to the exhibition gallery will walk away with an understanding of what was perhaps the most important American political crisis of the twentieth century.”

The exhibition includes a comprehensive history of Watergate and profiles of many of the key players, including the burglars, White House and campaign aides indicted in the coverup, the prosecutors who issued criminal charges, prosecution witnesses, investigative journalists who covered the events as they unfolded, and the wives of the men ensnared in the scandal.

Un-Presidented also explores crucial archival evidence. In July 1973, White House aide Alexander Butterfield revealed in Senate testimony the existence of Nixon’s White House taping system. The litigation and legislation that followed this watershed moment ultimately determined who is the owner of presidential records—a legal legacy that continues to loom over contemporary American politics.

Objects in the exhibition include never-before-displayed sketches drawn by Nixon aide John Ehrlichman during the Watergate trials; memoranda on campaign strategy and clandestine operations from the collection of Jeb Magruder, deputy director of the Committee for the Re-election of the President; trial notes on perjury taken by Nixon aide Robert Mardian; a series of drawings of Watergate figures created by artist Edward Eugene Herron; and correspondence written to and about the wives of the indicted conspirators of the Watergate scandal.

“There is perhaps no better place than an archive to host an exhibition on the watershed moment that was Watergate,” said Jean McElwee Cannon , research fellow and curator for North American Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. “In addition to representing an era of American political crisis and a test of democratic institutions, Watergate was a testament to the power of archival evidence when searching for truth. Without the tapes, documents, and photographs scrutinized by journalists and legislators in the Watergate era, the American public may never have known the truth behind the scandal. The Hoover Institution is proud to carry on a tradition of providing open access to information. We hope visitors to our gallery will come away with an enhanced understanding of the people and events of Watergate and the lasting historical impact the Nixon era has had on American politics and society.”

To accompany the exhibit, Library & Archives will be hosting an educational speaker series. Confirmed speakers include John Roy Price, former White House aide and author of The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider’s Perspective on Nixon’s Surprising Social Policy (May 8); Luke Nichter, professor of history at Chapman University, renowned expert on the Nixon White House tape recordings, and author of The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 (June 17); and Heath Hardage Lee, biographer and author of the upcoming book, The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady (August 8) .  Visit Hoover.org/events for more information and updates.

Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America is free and open to the public and can be viewed in person in Hoover Tower at Stanford University. Visitors may also view concurrent exhibitions featured in the Hoover Tower rotunda and gallery spaces.

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February 12– August 11, 2024

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President Herbert Hoover. The Election of 1928. The Candidates: Herbert Hoover (Rep) Successful engineer Former head of the Food Administration in WWI 7 years as secretary of commerce in the Harding and Coolidge admins . Alfred E. Smith (Dem) 4 time gov of NY

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The Election of 1928 • The Candidates: • Herbert Hoover (Rep) • Successful engineer • Former head of the Food Administration in WWI • 7 years as secretary of commerce in the Harding and Coolidge admins. • Alfred E. Smith (Dem) • 4 time gov of NY • Irish American from New York’s Lower East Side • First Roman Catholic nominated as a Presidential candidate

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The Winner: • Hoover received 6 million more votes than Smith and won the electoral college 444 to 87 • It’s a landslide WIN • At his inaugural address movie cameras filmed for the first time and radios broadcast the address worldwide. • Hoover stated “I have no fears for the future of our country.” “It is bright with hope.”

President Herbert Hoover • Hoover’s Philosophy • Rejects the idea of federal aid to suffering Americans. • Hoover urges Americans to lift themselves up through hard work - rugged individualism=success comes from individual effort and private enterprise. C. He believes private charities and local communities, not the Federal Government, could provide for those in need. D. However, local governments and private charities didn’t have the resources and money to help so many people in a time of national crisis.

Hoover tries to boost the economy • Stimulating the economy 1. He recommended top business, labor and political leaders to maintain employment and wages in order to revive business activity and promote recovery. 2. Congress funded several public-works programs in order to stimulate business and employ jobless workers. - Boulder (Hoover) Dam on the Colorado River, near Las Vegas *He approved some $800 million in public works funding but it still wasn’t enough.

Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929- Federal Farm Board buys up the extra farm crops to increase crop prices, then the government would sell the crops later when prices were higher. Farmers rebelled by growing more crops. Home Loan Bank Act in 1932- provided $ to savings banks, building and loan associations, and insurance companies, hoping to allow more farmers to keep their land and to boost home construction. Reconstruction Finance Corporation- gave up to $2 billion for emergency financing for banks, life insurance companies and corporations. The $ was supposed to trickle down to the needy.

Bonus Army • Citizens are unhappy with Hoover • Bonus Army: more than 10,000 WWI veterans protested in Washington DC to support a bonus bill that would give veterans early payment for their time served in the war. • Demonstrators camped in DC but when Congress rejected the bill 2,000 of the veterans stayed against official orders. • Hoover ordered the veterans to leave by using Army soldiers to drive them out, burning their camps and injuring many veterans as well. • The nation was furious with Hoover.

Shantytowns “Hoovervilles”- all across the nation

1932 election • Republicans nominate Herbert Hoover as their presidential candidate • Democrats nominate Franklin Delano Roosevelt Winner?

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Hoover as President. Chapter 21 section 3. Philosophy. Rugged Individualism: Unnecessary government dimmed the spirit of the American people Believed deeply that it was vital for the nation’s well-being not to destroy people’s belief in their own responsibility and power. Associative State:

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Hippocampus: President Herber Hoover

Hippocampus: President Herber Hoover

Hippocampus: President Herber Hoover. 1) What previous experience did HH have in government? 2) Who did HH run against in the 1928 election? 3) What new media influenced the outcome of the election? Why? 4) How did Al Smith’s religious affiliation influence the outcome of the 1928 election?

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The Great Depression: Herbert Hoover & Rugged Individualism

The Great Depression: Herbert Hoover & Rugged Individualism

The Great Depression: Herbert Hoover & Rugged Individualism. US History. 1. Presidency. Won big in election of 1928 – “ Boy Wonder ” Promised continued prosperity ; pledged hard work Popular with both parties Weakness – timing !!! (Crash of 1929). 1. Presidency.

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President Herbert Hoover

President Herbert Hoover. The Election of 1928. “As the twig is bent-the tree is inclined.”. Hoovervilles. The Bonus Expeditionary Force. Clearing Out the Bonus Marchers. The Election of 1932. Perceptions of FDR.

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Herbert Hoover at the Helm

Herbert Hoover at the Helm

Herbert Hoover at the Helm. Thinking Skill: Explicitly assess information and draw conclusions. We'd Like To Thank You Martin Charnin Today we're living in a shanty. Today we're scrounging for a meal Today I'm stealing coal for fires Who knew I could steal? I used to winter in the tropics

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover. The Dust Bowl. From 1930 – 36, a terrible drought, coupled with decades of damage to the topsoil from plowing, led to wind erosion and huge dust clouds Thousands of farmers lost everything and were forced to move west and work as migrant farmers. Dorothea Lange. 1895 – 1965

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover. "Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!" 1921. 1874-1964 – b. Iowa U.S. Food Administration "Ten Most Important Living Americans“ 1920, NYT Secretary o f Commerce Floods 27’ Beat D, Al Smith in 1928 election, margin 444-87

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