This is probably one reason Republicans lost in 1960. If I was a Republican, I would be embarrassed to mention Herbert Hoover's name! YOu know, all this pricks that throw off on FDR.. I just wished to God that they could go back in time and live in the Great Depression.... they'd never vote for another Republican again! FDR saved this country and provided jobs for the unemployed through the CCC, WPA, TVA, Dam Projects, etc. FDR saved my grandfather's ass thanks to the CCC and the GI Bill!
@Budnipper82 The Republicans lost in 1960 because of all the dead people who voted in Chicago (with a little help from Daley's thugs).
The one good thing that Obama has accomplished is proving to the most dim-witted lefties that FDR turned a recession into a long depression, by repeating FDR's destructive policies, with the same results.
@amateurphilosopher ... LOL. If I was you, I'd study your history a tad more. This country was already into full blown Depression after the crash of 29 before FDR even came into office in 33. Hoover sat back and didn't do crap to help helping people that were unemployed and were starving. Hoover signed the Republican sponsored "Smoot-Hawley Tarriff Act" in 1930 making things worse! FDRs policies relieved the suffering for the unemployed. Imagine if hadn't done anything.
@amateurphilosopher How many Depressions had we had since FDR's policies and regulations were put in place? 0! Before FDR, this country had several Depressions. If McCain would have gotten in, we would probably be in the 2nd Depression today with unemployment much higher! I know it has to kill you Repugs that we've had 22 straight months of PRIVATE sector job growth and GDP growth! Ouch. Keep hoping for things to be bad! Defeating Obama is all the GOP cares about.
Hey guys i had to do a president report on Herbert hoover and he was a very good president. he did NOT ruin the economy he wanted to make it better he didnt do it. if u dont believe me google POTUS and it will bring u to a factual website about presidents he is the 31'st remember he did his best!!! :)
Hoover seems to have a lot in common with Carter: Policies as president that made a bad economy worse, but having a longer, more successful post-presidency as an elder statesman.
Boy the Republicans must have really been grabbing for straws (again) to bring back the man who began the recession, for a pep talk at their National Convention.
Hoover had spoken at every Republican convention since 1936. In 1948, 52 and 56 the press called it Hoover's "farewell" address. But Hoover was in good enough health and spirits to speak at the 1960 GOP convention. Hoover joked that his last three "farewell" convention speeches "didn't take".
I will give you credit for the statement about Hoover, though. He actually tried to warn Coolidge abourt his and Mellon's economic policies but they would not listen. They deserve more blame than poor Hoover who was a good man overtaken by events and handcuffed by the mentality you seem to like, do nothing and the economy will recover on its own.
You are so full of bull. You do not know what the hell a reign of terror is. Check names like Stalin and Hitler. Of course if they let you keep a ton of gold, they would be great men. You have been reading the right wing propaganda about the Great Depression. They want to take us back to the 19th century. I wish they could, I WOULD LOVE to see how you and others like you would do in a Darwinian predatory capitalist society like that.
Hoover, the "evil right winger" was neither. A progressive (with whom I have many ideological differences.), Hoover really did try to use government to "help" the Depression, but he thought that most of the intervention should be at the state level. Neither options, looking back probably would have done anything, but many picture him as a dick who sat on his ass and did nothing, which is untrue. If only he sat on his ass and did nothing!
Hey, if your gonna make comments dont make them off the cuff. Double check your facts. To say that he didnt cause the depression is to vague of a sentence, as there was to many things going on for one person to be blamed. One could say he didnt cause the crash as well, and that maybe closer to reality then the depression statement. It was Hoovers lack of response that had more to do with the depression and the fed did the same, they thought the market place would fix it self which it didnt.
The first regularly scheduled TV service in the US was in 1928, a few months before Hoover was elected, so one shouldn't be surprised to seem him on TV, only surprised that it took so long!
@mazda6tuner99 Yes, Hoover was an amazing cabinet member in the 1920's, as Secretary of Commerce Hoover regulated vehicle traffic, made radios available to every American household, and spearheaded infrastructure projects throughout America, many of which we still rely on today.
Hoover, secured election in 1928 from his leadership is leading a volunteer effort for flood disaster relief in the Missouri Valley which had suffered from a devastating flood.
Fed's policy is what helped bring on the Great Depression, among other things. Hoover was a humanitarian who helped feed millions of people during and after the first World War. He was an able member of the cabinet, and in that position he did much good. He would be considered a moderate Republican today. But he failed to keep his word about helping African Americans rise socially or politically, and that forced blacks interested in civil rights into the Democratic camp. This was his fault.
Classic example that people just want someone to blame for anything. Hoover may not have been an amazing president, but the depression still wasn't his fault. He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. The economy was about to pop no matter who stepped in. For those of you who have done your research, pardon me for being obvious. But It needs to be set clear.
To the folks that say he didn't do anything about the Depression, you are wrong. He started the policies that were later expanded by FDR. The Depression lasted longer under FDR than under Hoover. Keynes mostly liked their policies but neither spent enough money to help the economy. Most economists now believe it was a failure of monetary policy (the Fed) that caused the Depression to be anything other than a recession. So it was a failure of progressivism and not conservatism.
President Hoover was not the only president who either brought on or failed to address the Depression.
As an individual, he was very accomplished -- far better than Harding (who wasn't?) and more able than Coolidge. E.g., as Secretary of Commerce, he made a profit for the government. Lots of parallels to Jimmy Carter, both self-made business successes, both engineers, both academically gifted, both renowned for international charitable and peace-building efforts, both politically unlucky.
@SSArcher11 Carter? A business success? His farm was a million dollars in the hole when he finished his presidency. Hoover was a failure and Jimmy Carter was the worst President we've ever had, except for Obama.
I think that the depression was like 9/11. It would have happened no matter who was in office at the time. It had been building for some time, President Hoover had the bad luck of the draw to be in office when it happened.
I may be very wrong about this, but I get the feeling that the Great Depression probably wasn't all Hoover's fault, that he unfortunately had it happen on his watch. He probably made some poor decisions which contributed to it, but events like that usually have multiple causes. Not the best President but probably not the worst either.
he was not a decent person,he continued in all facets of government and continued badly like the rest of the cretins overseeing the total misguiding /ruination of america at the hands of the jewsih butt they slavered over.lol
I don't know why it's "surpris[ing]" "that a President who was elected in 1928 was still alive to be on TV". Between his election and this convention was 32 years. Jimmy Carter was elected 33 years ago, but nobody's awed that he's lived so long.
I actually attended this convention in 1960 as a 14-year old page but I was not in the hall when Mr. Hoover came out. Imagine it has been another 40 years passed now and none of the big guns of that convention such as Nixon, Lodge, Goldwater, or Rockefeller are still with us. People die but good ideas live on and Hoover took the rap for something he could not control in 1929 but his dedication to freedom is still inspirational even 70 years later. God bless that great humanitarian from Iowa.
I might be mistaken but Herbert Hoover was on TV before this -- back in 1928 at the World's Fair. But at that time, of course, it was very experimental and only a few people at the Fair itself could see the "telecast."
It looks like he had enough brains for 3 people, but he didn't. The Great Depression was the fault of Big Papa Government getting involved in the free market. If the markets had been left alone, they would have self corrected. The businesses that made bad decisions would have failed, and the wise businesses would have thrived. Sure there would have been a 1 year recession, instead we got a 15 year Great Depression. Sounds like today? Europe did not suffer a depression in the 1930's.
Hoover was a longtime friend of Joe Kennedy Sr. and was invited to JFK's inauguration - despite being in the other party. Bad weather kept his plane from reaching DC.
Read your history books. Hoover had intervened in the economy, despite all the common wisdom as read by high school history teachers. He raised taxes, congress passed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs which were largely to blame for turning a severe economic slowdown into a depression. Unemployment was 9% when the market crashed and fell to 6.3% 8 months later. It was when the economy was beginning to recover that government acted. FDR continued what Hoover had started and prolonged the
depression for several years with his massive intrusions in the economy, such as the Wagner Act, the Nation Industrial Recovery Act, the Securities Exchange Act.
As for the current recession, read up on the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. It created lax lending standards at which banks could lend sub-prime mortgage loans to home buyers. More provisions were added to the bill over the decades. Because of this massive surge of home buyers, it caused the housing prices in
widespread areas to artificially inflate, and by massive numbers too. Starting in 2006, after these sub-prime mortgages were brought up to prime, homeowners were unable to pay off their mortgages and were forced in to foreclosure. The swarm of foreclosures flooded the market and caused nationwide falls in housing prices.
Bush, much like Hoover, took sweeping government action to try contain a crisis. And now, like FDR, Obama is needlessly going to prolong this with more governm
@JoeDavidBrown Oh wait, you mean the current depression that was caused by the Community Reinvestment Act, a social-engineering project championed by Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and Barack Obama?
LOL, we are the only country in the world that believes everyone deserves a house. Point to the location in the Constitution that says we should give loans to an unemployed person to buy a home because of his race? What a fucking joke.
sorry he raised taxes and cut spending across the board at the same time that the money supply was contracting, so the only people more responsible than him was the federal reserve
@sandythebear You are quite correct, but his meddling and FDR's meddling prolonged it for years. Warren Harding did nothing and the forgotten Woodrow Wilson Depression lasted only 8 months. Hoover was, of course, one of Woodrow Wilson's "wonder boys," having little to do with the laissez-faire Republican Party principles of Harding and Coolidge. How I wish American History was factually taught!
@BlackThoughtChannel If only! That's a common myth put forth by the left in this country. He DID get the ball rolling toward depression by recklessly increasing spending, & as the economy slowed & then crashed as overextended credit wiped out the stock market, he took precisely the WRONG approach by INCREASING taxes and spending further and signing the DISASTROUS Smoot-Hawley Act, dramatically increasing tariffs & wiping out int'l trade. FDR then magnified his mistakes a million-fold.
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@reprobacious FDR is the reason why you have a chicken in the pot and some damn shoes on your feet. Some people are so immersed in their partisanship they can never show any gratitude to the best President of the 20th century. Just remember the man who's responsible for the clothes on your back and that crappy job you have.
@BlackThoughtChannel Everything I wrote is 100% factual; acquaint yourself with history before commenting, please. I owe NOTHING to FDR; in fact, 1 month into his reign of terror he CONFISCATED everyone's gold (my grandfather was a lucky one who managed to keep some of his) to try to force those trying to weather the depression into govt dependency to further empower himself at the USA's expense. He was a tyrant who extended & worsened the depression markedly & exploited people's suffering.
A charge of emotionalism coming from your side of the aisle, haha, you slay me. Hurry up and finish painting those BusHitler signs or you'll be late for the riot.
@sandythebear Of course it wasn't his fault, a number of things caused the Depression. However, he certainly didn't help us out of it much. That was FDR.
@sandythebear Yeah I hear you, it definitely wasn't his fault. He was only in office for about 8 months when it happened. The reason why the American people showed so much disdain for him was because he didn't go to extraordinary measures like FDR to try and get us out of the Depression. Plus he wasn't an experienced politician, he never held political office before the presidency. And I agree with grabit1, he wasn't a good president, but a good man, humanitarian, and American.
@sandythebear Hoover was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The problems had been accumulating over time, and he was the unfortunate person in office when it happened. He did a lot to try to solve the problem (some say too much). The only thing he would not do is authorize a direct federal dole to individuals, likening it to opium in terms of its effect on a person's initiative.
Hoover's "cautios steps" and "philosophy" sure helped during the Deppression, which basically destroyed the country for ten years. Yeah, he's someone you would take seriously when endorsing a Presidential candidate.
OMG ... President Hoover .... in 1960 !! The one who showed grim face while sitting next to FDR during the motorcade to Capitol Hill in 1933 !!
He's one of the former presidents who were still living during the assasination of President Kennedy. The others were President Truman and President Eisenhower. I wonder what their comments on that sad event in US history.
who knows...FDR got us into a war...that killed a lot of Americans...did we need to go to war? Did the powers that be want Hitler to be a tyrant? It is up to historians to let us know the truth...
boooooo herbert hoover! make no mistake about it; this man is responsible for the great depression-and he didn't do anything to fix it--it took franklin delano roosevelt--who at least came up with programs to relieve this great american tragedy--hoover was one of our worst presidents-how he showed his do-nothing face in public for decades afterward is beyond me
Umm, you just made a mistake "about it". Hoover was President for just 8 months when the depression hit. The depression lasted clear into 1940 and the only reason we came out of it is that we began building the European War Machine, and then entered the war in 1941. Unemployment was even higher in FDR's first term and lingered around 15% until 1940. The building projects, while useful, were a temporary fix to a long term problem. The Smoot-Hawley tariff was Hoover's achilles heal. Look it up.
Cutting taxes for the rich is the right thing to do. When the rich have more money, they invest in the market and spend what they don't invest like there's no tomorrow. They money doesn't stay in a warehouse like Scrooge Mc Duck, and you liberals need to learn the obvious. This stimulates the economy. I'm sick of this idiotic idea of punishing the rich for being rich. What are you going to do when Obama, McCain, Pelsosi and the Neo Progressives come for your money?
First, you define "excessively." Next, you explain how the spending of 0.1% of the populace "stimulates" the economy. You explain why someone who's never done anything except live off the tit of family or tax-breaks deserves more breaks. No knock on hard-earned and wealth with integrity and pay-back, but your trickle-down economics is a proven fraud that only leaves wet mold stains. I don't worry about yuppie liberals getting my money. I hide the silverware only when I encounter your ilk.
@63whiskey giving tax breaks to the super rich in time destroys the middle class, concentrates wealth and businesses in a few hands which hurt the overall economy. id much rather 85% of the population able to buy cars, college ed, homes, open small businesses with money to spare for spending into the economy. when wealth is in the upper 5% of the pop. our industries, factories, car manuf. and construction all suffer. fuck reagan and bush they are failures and liars. they kiss big bankers ass
Hoover was a decent prez, the only reason he is so maligned is because he made the unforeseen mistake of sticking to the "tried-and-true" methods to get us out of the Depression. FDR was more of an experimentalist would try almost anything, even Socialism Lite (The New Deal). The result was, unemployment got worse under Hoover, while it improved under FDR at the same time of blowing up the deficit. In retrospect, both were kind of weak.
The New Deal is a classic example of attacking the symptoms and not the source. It managed to get unemployment down to about 25% to 15%, but it did take the war to finally get it down to 0. It's attempts to reverse the Depression through spending caused inflation that helped the workers, but not the consumers.
The workers ARE the consumers. Geez . . . But I won't argue that the war was the real end of the Depression, and that the sources were altered by definition. And necessity.
Hoover, by most accounts (and I'm old enought to remember when he died), was at least a decent person, and a bona fide humanitarian. But probably not presidential material, and certainly not then. Kinda the Jimmy Carter of Republicans, he stayed on the national scene for three decades after leaving office.
Really, no one knows if anything could have eased the depression. People still debate whether the New Deal had any real affect or if it only ended with time (and a boost from WWII). But when it came to humanatarian work, the dude was a miracle worker. If it wasn't for his appalling racism against African Americans, the guy should have been nominated for sainthood.
He was the perfect example of "what not to do" during a depression time. He didn't inject (estimulus) money in the mainstream. That's why republicans are stubborn, they don't care if the underdogs are suffering.
@comercio76 actually, his mistake was surely NOT that. His raising of taxes and imposition of new tariffs to stifle international trade were the stupid things that enhanced the depression. As seen from 1933-1939, injecting money into the economy and expanding the reach of government did little to help the United States as well. If anything, both Hoover and Roosevelt were inefficient at dealing with the Depression.
No shit sherlock. He didn't do anything after the election. The economy got worse. Supply side economics wasn't capable of pulling the entire nation out of the whole. I don't think Hoover was a bad man just and ineffective president.
you don't realize that he lowered the budget and lowered taxes. That worked in 1920 it took one year to get out of that depression. Hoover had barely 2 months to prove anything.
No shitsherlock. Answer what did he do to get the nation out of the depression. Lowered taxes and a lowered budget did nothing for the millions in bread lines. Things only got worse during the Hoover presidency.
@comercio76 your just saying what the democrat/media complex says cuse they know you wont check your facts. hover put all kinds of goverment programs in place. FDR even campain against his spending during their election.
Our first engineer president, our first Stanford-grad president, the guy who fed war-weary and starved Europe, a martyr to political fads. He wasn't a terribly outstanding POTUS, I'll grant you that. It was his fate to meet the Perfect Storm of economic calamity. Still, there were millions of Americans in 1932 who wanted to Hold On To Hoover...and though they removed his name from "Boulder Dam" for a while, Hoover Dam it remains to this day.
Wow,back when America had REAL leadership and strength. Before Marxism and socialism took over. Well,FDR was actually a little taste of Socialism but even his "programs couldn't get us out of depression. It took a World war to do it.
Interesting. By the way he talks ("America is in the midst of a frightening moral slump"), you would not think that it was his party that had occupied the White House for the past 8 years. I wonder how Eisenhower felt about that. I was only 5 at the time, so I don't recall, but I *think* Nixon was promising continuity, not making a McCain-style attempt to distance himself from his president. Did Hoover' words echo a theme of the convention? Anyone know?
i don't know about that, he made some pretty bad decisions right after the stock market crash. but i still dont think people need to curse his name like they do. he was just not meant to be a depression president, i dont think. truman sent him to germany to do some work after ww2 and he was pretty good at that.
Certainly Hoover was one of he most maligned; I would add Warren Harding and Ulysses Grant to that list, Harding being a very fine president indeed. My candidates for the most overpraised presidents would be Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Jackson, Jefferson and Truman. I generally disagree with the historians and the history books, preferring to make my own opinions; one thing we all agree upon is the greatness of George Washington.
My list of favorite U.S. presidents: Washington, Coolidge, Cleveland, J.Q. Adams, Tyler, Hayes, Arthur, Grant, T. Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. JFK would have proven very interesting and beneficial had he lived, IMO; he was making rapid changes and turnarounds in his thinking just before he was killed by the fearful.
He looks like Boris Yeltsin.
Nes8bitmachine 1 week ago
This is probably one reason Republicans lost in 1960. If I was a Republican, I would be embarrassed to mention Herbert Hoover's name! YOu know, all this pricks that throw off on FDR.. I just wished to God that they could go back in time and live in the Great Depression.... they'd never vote for another Republican again! FDR saved this country and provided jobs for the unemployed through the CCC, WPA, TVA, Dam Projects, etc. FDR saved my grandfather's ass thanks to the CCC and the GI Bill!
Budnipper82 3 weeks ago
@Budnipper82 The Republicans lost in 1960 because of all the dead people who voted in Chicago (with a little help from Daley's thugs).
The one good thing that Obama has accomplished is proving to the most dim-witted lefties that FDR turned a recession into a long depression, by repeating FDR's destructive policies, with the same results.
amateurphilosopher 2 weeks ago
@amateurphilosopher ... LOL. If I was you, I'd study your history a tad more. This country was already into full blown Depression after the crash of 29 before FDR even came into office in 33. Hoover sat back and didn't do crap to help helping people that were unemployed and were starving. Hoover signed the Republican sponsored "Smoot-Hawley Tarriff Act" in 1930 making things worse! FDRs policies relieved the suffering for the unemployed. Imagine if hadn't done anything.
Budnipper82 2 weeks ago
@amateurphilosopher How many Depressions had we had since FDR's policies and regulations were put in place? 0! Before FDR, this country had several Depressions. If McCain would have gotten in, we would probably be in the 2nd Depression today with unemployment much higher! I know it has to kill you Repugs that we've had 22 straight months of PRIVATE sector job growth and GDP growth! Ouch. Keep hoping for things to be bad! Defeating Obama is all the GOP cares about.
Budnipper82 2 weeks ago
hoover was a good humanitarian but a bad president!
33guyfawkes 1 month ago
Change the resolution to 240p to hear the audio
spanishbizarro1 1 month ago 4
Hey guys i had to do a president report on Herbert hoover and he was a very good president. he did NOT ruin the economy he wanted to make it better he didnt do it. if u dont believe me google POTUS and it will bring u to a factual website about presidents he is the 31'st remember he did his best!!! :)
rjdmom123 1 month ago
Herbert Hoover ruined th economy :(
augustoPOGOARES 1 month ago
Hoover seems to have a lot in common with Carter: Policies as president that made a bad economy worse, but having a longer, more successful post-presidency as an elder statesman.
guspolly 1 month ago
where the hell is the audio
gerjerry99 2 months ago
Boy the Republicans must have really been grabbing for straws (again) to bring back the man who began the recession, for a pep talk at their National Convention.
dannyd1572 2 months ago
FDR pwned this douche
LordKaisen 2 months ago 4
i changed to 240p and sound came back
RedStateRoy 2 months ago
@RedStateRoy Yep, me too
dannyd1572 2 months ago
We could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
BrandonSW91 3 months ago
No sound?
Ed534 3 months ago
I can't hear a thing!
al1936ful 3 months ago
I thought that you would like this short version with sound...interesting to hear his voice.
whurdsderodan 3 months ago
my but he was a quiet man....NO SOUND??
ivegotalongdong 3 months ago
Hoover had spoken at every Republican convention since 1936. In 1948, 52 and 56 the press called it Hoover's "farewell" address. But Hoover was in good enough health and spirits to speak at the 1960 GOP convention. Hoover joked that his last three "farewell" convention speeches "didn't take".
observer9670 4 months ago
@observer9670 He actually lived to see the '64 convention, but his failing health precluded him from attending.
toddsmitts 3 months ago
FDR was overated.
PixieCotton 4 months ago
this is really cool. thanks for posting!
mgh0815 5 months ago
Back in the day fuckin sucks!!!! I wish nothing happened before I was born!!! what a bunch of bullshit!!!
HaakonAnderson 5 months ago
why is there no sound?
d2workjr 5 months ago
I will give you credit for the statement about Hoover, though. He actually tried to warn Coolidge abourt his and Mellon's economic policies but they would not listen. They deserve more blame than poor Hoover who was a good man overtaken by events and handcuffed by the mentality you seem to like, do nothing and the economy will recover on its own.
salami1959 6 months ago
You are so full of bull. You do not know what the hell a reign of terror is. Check names like Stalin and Hitler. Of course if they let you keep a ton of gold, they would be great men. You have been reading the right wing propaganda about the Great Depression. They want to take us back to the 19th century. I wish they could, I WOULD LOVE to see how you and others like you would do in a Darwinian predatory capitalist society like that.
salami1959 6 months ago
Why is there no sound? Every other has it.
niflap 7 months ago
@niflap used to have sound before
WAHT97 6 months ago
Hoover was President at a time when this country needed goverment to step in,
unfortunately,he just passively sat back and thought the economy would fix it self
without any goverment intervention.
larryiloos 7 months ago
@larryiloos You are ignorant.
jd55192 5 months ago
i dont hear shit weres the sound
redbulljustice99 7 months ago
In 1960, it was only 28 years since he had served as President. It would be like having Jimmy Carter on TV today.
mindspring57 8 months ago
Jesus what a gigantic head he had.
andy32capp 11 months ago
And there will never be another Depression! You can take that to the Maga-banks!
octaviaaugustus1950 11 months ago
The depression was caused by Coolidge's decisions in office, Hardings decisions too. Hoover got all the blame.
Skabur123 11 months ago
Hoover got to outlive Roosevelt by 20 years. Not bad.
NYerintransit 11 months ago 3
This was only a few years before Herbert Hoover died in 1964.
mbsjrcc06 1 year ago
Hoover, the "evil right winger" was neither. A progressive (with whom I have many ideological differences.), Hoover really did try to use government to "help" the Depression, but he thought that most of the intervention should be at the state level. Neither options, looking back probably would have done anything, but many picture him as a dick who sat on his ass and did nothing, which is untrue. If only he sat on his ass and did nothing!
thenutintheushanka18 1 year ago
Hey, if your gonna make comments dont make them off the cuff. Double check your facts. To say that he didnt cause the depression is to vague of a sentence, as there was to many things going on for one person to be blamed. One could say he didnt cause the crash as well, and that maybe closer to reality then the depression statement. It was Hoovers lack of response that had more to do with the depression and the fed did the same, they thought the market place would fix it self which it didnt.
johnsondaleaa 1 year ago
The first regularly scheduled TV service in the US was in 1928, a few months before Hoover was elected, so one shouldn't be surprised to seem him on TV, only surprised that it took so long!
Ramubay 1 year ago
The perfect tea party candidate
luridplanet 1 year ago
wow no sound
WAHT97 1 year ago
Did hoover have any any other political positions before his presidency?
mazda6tuner99 1 year ago
@mazda6tuner99 Yes, Hoover was an amazing cabinet member in the 1920's, as Secretary of Commerce Hoover regulated vehicle traffic, made radios available to every American household, and spearheaded infrastructure projects throughout America, many of which we still rely on today.
Hoover, secured election in 1928 from his leadership is leading a volunteer effort for flood disaster relief in the Missouri Valley which had suffered from a devastating flood.
therushfan22 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
In months past, I could see and hear this, but for some reason the audio is no longer functioning properly (on my end at least).
MichaelTheResearcher 1 year ago
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MichaelTheResearcher 1 year ago
Fed's policy is what helped bring on the Great Depression, among other things. Hoover was a humanitarian who helped feed millions of people during and after the first World War. He was an able member of the cabinet, and in that position he did much good. He would be considered a moderate Republican today. But he failed to keep his word about helping African Americans rise socially or politically, and that forced blacks interested in civil rights into the Democratic camp. This was his fault.
72Yonatan 1 year ago
Hoover lived longer than any other President after leavig office.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
Classic example that people just want someone to blame for anything. Hoover may not have been an amazing president, but the depression still wasn't his fault. He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. The economy was about to pop no matter who stepped in. For those of you who have done your research, pardon me for being obvious. But It needs to be set clear.
JoeJoeyJose 1 year ago
To the folks that say he didn't do anything about the Depression, you are wrong. He started the policies that were later expanded by FDR. The Depression lasted longer under FDR than under Hoover. Keynes mostly liked their policies but neither spent enough money to help the economy. Most economists now believe it was a failure of monetary policy (the Fed) that caused the Depression to be anything other than a recession. So it was a failure of progressivism and not conservatism.
antinotis 1 year ago
President Hoover was not the only president who either brought on or failed to address the Depression.
As an individual, he was very accomplished -- far better than Harding (who wasn't?) and more able than Coolidge. E.g., as Secretary of Commerce, he made a profit for the government. Lots of parallels to Jimmy Carter, both self-made business successes, both engineers, both academically gifted, both renowned for international charitable and peace-building efforts, both politically unlucky.
SSArcher11 1 year ago
@SSArcher11 Carter? A business success? His farm was a million dollars in the hole when he finished his presidency. Hoover was a failure and Jimmy Carter was the worst President we've ever had, except for Obama.
faroutadventures 1 year ago
you know what would be great? if the sound was on
lovetoplaythecello 1 year ago
whats rong with his face?
Dzubur1 1 year ago
His head looks fucking freaky! wtf? Did he have a tumor?
whoo689 1 year ago
the great depression was president hoover fault!!!!!
TheBigboyfan 1 year ago
who is it the 23th president
cheatsyokoopa 1 year ago
@cheatsyokoopa Benjamin Harrison
DAVETYIOP 1 year ago
@DAVETYIOP that my best friend great great ungle
cheatsyokoopa 1 year ago
I think that the depression was like 9/11. It would have happened no matter who was in office at the time. It had been building for some time, President Hoover had the bad luck of the draw to be in office when it happened.
gotch09 1 year ago
I may be very wrong about this, but I get the feeling that the Great Depression probably wasn't all Hoover's fault, that he unfortunately had it happen on his watch. He probably made some poor decisions which contributed to it, but events like that usually have multiple causes. Not the best President but probably not the worst either.
xander7ful 1 year ago
Interesting piece of history......now I know why Hoover couldn't handle the Great Depression!
steveforsane 1 year ago
What a clown this guy was.
rlibos 1 year ago
One of my least favorite presidents in history.
RyanShortFilms 1 year ago
Maybe he wasn't such a great President, but at least he invented the vaccum cleaner!
BamaChris 1 year ago
I love Republicans. They are never, never, NEVER wrong. Everyone else is.
JoeDavidBrown 1 year ago
@JoeDavidBrown, "I love Republicans. They are never, never , NEVER wrong"
LOL! Oh how ironic.
Eric8542010 1 year ago
he was not a decent person,he continued in all facets of government and continued badly like the rest of the cretins overseeing the total misguiding /ruination of america at the hands of the jewsih butt they slavered over.lol
xtiml 1 year ago
Hoover really is innocent
Kalkas53 1 year ago
I don't know why it's "surpris[ing]" "that a President who was elected in 1928 was still alive to be on TV". Between his election and this convention was 32 years. Jimmy Carter was elected 33 years ago, but nobody's awed that he's lived so long.
TehAsploder 1 year ago
I actually attended this convention in 1960 as a 14-year old page but I was not in the hall when Mr. Hoover came out. Imagine it has been another 40 years passed now and none of the big guns of that convention such as Nixon, Lodge, Goldwater, or Rockefeller are still with us. People die but good ideas live on and Hoover took the rap for something he could not control in 1929 but his dedication to freedom is still inspirational even 70 years later. God bless that great humanitarian from Iowa.
D4g4marc4 1 year ago
I might be mistaken but Herbert Hoover was on TV before this -- back in 1928 at the World's Fair. But at that time, of course, it was very experimental and only a few people at the Fair itself could see the "telecast."
chrisman737 1 year ago
Oh I think the depression was coming whether Mr. Hoover was in office or not.
gotch09 1 year ago
It looks like he had enough brains for 3 people, but he didn't. The Great Depression was the fault of Big Papa Government getting involved in the free market. If the markets had been left alone, they would have self corrected. The businesses that made bad decisions would have failed, and the wise businesses would have thrived. Sure there would have been a 1 year recession, instead we got a 15 year Great Depression. Sounds like today? Europe did not suffer a depression in the 1930's.
ericso333 1 year ago
@ericso333 I imagine countries like Germany would have been shocked as hell to find out they weren't in a depression in the 30's.
gotch09 1 year ago
Hoover was a longtime friend of Joe Kennedy Sr. and was invited to JFK's inauguration - despite being in the other party. Bad weather kept his plane from reaching DC.
Warjacki 1 year ago
It took WW2 to pull the world and U.S. out of the depression. The banks and Wall Street were responsible for the Great Depression.
ajb1776 1 year ago
The depression was not hoover's fault popular to contrary belief
sandythebear 1 year ago 26
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he invented anal sex
greeniem 1 year ago
@greeniem Just another Republican who put this country into depression. Starting to see a pattern here?
JoeDavidBrown 1 year ago
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ooh so the republicans invented anal sex on america, gotcha....
greeniem 1 year ago
@JoeDavidBrown
Read your history books. Hoover had intervened in the economy, despite all the common wisdom as read by high school history teachers. He raised taxes, congress passed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs which were largely to blame for turning a severe economic slowdown into a depression. Unemployment was 9% when the market crashed and fell to 6.3% 8 months later. It was when the economy was beginning to recover that government acted. FDR continued what Hoover had started and prolonged the
Ipetratz 1 year ago
@JoeDavidBrown
depression for several years with his massive intrusions in the economy, such as the Wagner Act, the Nation Industrial Recovery Act, the Securities Exchange Act.
As for the current recession, read up on the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. It created lax lending standards at which banks could lend sub-prime mortgage loans to home buyers. More provisions were added to the bill over the decades. Because of this massive surge of home buyers, it caused the housing prices in
Ipetratz 1 year ago
@JoeDavidBrown
widespread areas to artificially inflate, and by massive numbers too. Starting in 2006, after these sub-prime mortgages were brought up to prime, homeowners were unable to pay off their mortgages and were forced in to foreclosure. The swarm of foreclosures flooded the market and caused nationwide falls in housing prices.
Bush, much like Hoover, took sweeping government action to try contain a crisis. And now, like FDR, Obama is needlessly going to prolong this with more governm
Ipetratz 1 year ago
@JoeDavidBrown
Its a lot more complicated than that, my friend.
seth917 1 year ago
@JoeDavidBrown Oh wait, you mean the current depression that was caused by the Community Reinvestment Act, a social-engineering project championed by Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and Barack Obama?
LOL, we are the only country in the world that believes everyone deserves a house. Point to the location in the Constitution that says we should give loans to an unemployed person to buy a home because of his race? What a fucking joke.
akleyn 1 year ago
@sandythebear No it wasn't, but he didn't do anything to fix it either.
catclaw357 1 year ago
@catclaw357 Yea, believe me i'm not defeding him. I am quite critical of his policies.
sandythebear 1 year ago
@sandythebear
sorry he raised taxes and cut spending across the board at the same time that the money supply was contracting, so the only people more responsible than him was the federal reserve
Thvndar 1 year ago
@sandythebear Yah, let's all rewrite history in service to the Great Lie -- conservatism.
allencrider 1 year ago
@allencrider Neoconservatism is Neocons=The damned bush family and the rockefellers
sandythebear 1 year ago
@sandythebear His fault was ignoring that there was a problem
jojopuppyfish 1 year ago
@jojopuppyfish Pretty much it, as well as the Fed being greedy bastards like they have always been.
sandythebear 1 year ago
@sandythebear
Nor was it the financial crisis in 1929's fault. It was the crisis of Hoover's and FDR's Socialism that was to blame. Fact.
Nintendomanwill 1 year ago
@Nintendomanwill The fed did it too they imploded the stock market with speculative buying
sandythebear 1 year ago
@sandythebear you mean contrary to popular belief.
4Helloman 1 year ago
@4Helloman yea did i frick up spelling? oops my bad
sandythebear 1 year ago
@sandythebear "popular to contrary belief" lol
bobstevefrank123 1 year ago 2
@sandythebear You are quite correct, but his meddling and FDR's meddling prolonged it for years. Warren Harding did nothing and the forgotten Woodrow Wilson Depression lasted only 8 months. Hoover was, of course, one of Woodrow Wilson's "wonder boys," having little to do with the laissez-faire Republican Party principles of Harding and Coolidge. How I wish American History was factually taught!
billyguns2 1 year ago
@sandythebear Of course it wasn't, but his idiotic response to it was his fault.
foxh8er 11 months ago
@sandythebear It's not that Hoover CAUSED the depression. It's that he did NOTHING about it.
BlackThoughtChannel 10 months ago
@BlackThoughtChannel If only! That's a common myth put forth by the left in this country. He DID get the ball rolling toward depression by recklessly increasing spending, & as the economy slowed & then crashed as overextended credit wiped out the stock market, he took precisely the WRONG approach by INCREASING taxes and spending further and signing the DISASTROUS Smoot-Hawley Act, dramatically increasing tariffs & wiping out int'l trade. FDR then magnified his mistakes a million-fold.
reprobacious 10 months ago 11
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@reprobacious FDR is the reason why you have a chicken in the pot and some damn shoes on your feet. Some people are so immersed in their partisanship they can never show any gratitude to the best President of the 20th century. Just remember the man who's responsible for the clothes on your back and that crappy job you have.
BlackThoughtChannel 9 months ago
@BlackThoughtChannel Everything I wrote is 100% factual; acquaint yourself with history before commenting, please. I owe NOTHING to FDR; in fact, 1 month into his reign of terror he CONFISCATED everyone's gold (my grandfather was a lucky one who managed to keep some of his) to try to force those trying to weather the depression into govt dependency to further empower himself at the USA's expense. He was a tyrant who extended & worsened the depression markedly & exploited people's suffering.
reprobacious 9 months ago 20
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@reprobacious Wow, so emotional,... Would you like a tissue?
Ghstwn 8 months ago
A charge of emotionalism coming from your side of the aisle, haha, you slay me. Hurry up and finish painting those BusHitler signs or you'll be late for the riot.
reprobacious 8 months ago 5
@sandythebear Of course it wasn't his fault, a number of things caused the Depression. However, he certainly didn't help us out of it much. That was FDR.
LucidDivinity 10 months ago
@sandythebear Yeah I hear you, it definitely wasn't his fault. He was only in office for about 8 months when it happened. The reason why the American people showed so much disdain for him was because he didn't go to extraordinary measures like FDR to try and get us out of the Depression. Plus he wasn't an experienced politician, he never held political office before the presidency. And I agree with grabit1, he wasn't a good president, but a good man, humanitarian, and American.
WWETNAwrestlingfan15 9 months ago
@sandythebear Hoover was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The problems had been accumulating over time, and he was the unfortunate person in office when it happened. He did a lot to try to solve the problem (some say too much). The only thing he would not do is authorize a direct federal dole to individuals, likening it to opium in terms of its effect on a person's initiative.
mindspring57 8 months ago
@sandythebear He sure as hell didn't make it better.
ShadowGunner82 7 months ago
a racist oppressor,peice of shit
katocujokoa 1 year ago
HE WAS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY
mavivirgie 1 year ago
@mavivirgie
yes he was. But he was thrown out for opening fire on the World War I Veterans of the Bonus Army.
If he had recognized the Fed as the problem and disposed of it, that wouldn't had been the case.
mercenarybdu 1 year ago
@mercenarybdu The Fed was irrelvant in 1929. The FDIC was invented because of the run on the banks and that run can happen again now.
D4g4marc4 1 year ago
Nope. One of, but not the worst. Wilson, Roosevelt and now BHO. These are the worst.
stillkindofhungry 1 year ago
he looks horrifying
wagonfactor 1 year ago
Hoover's "cautios steps" and "philosophy" sure helped during the Deppression, which basically destroyed the country for ten years. Yeah, he's someone you would take seriously when endorsing a Presidential candidate.
warpedcomedy 2 years ago
Hmmm...Hoover was only President for 3 years and 4 months after the Crash. After March 4, 1933, who was responsible for the country?
kentamitchell 1 year ago
@kentamitchell Fucker Dipshit Roosevelt.
warpedcomedy 1 year ago
OMG ... President Hoover .... in 1960 !! The one who showed grim face while sitting next to FDR during the motorcade to Capitol Hill in 1933 !!
He's one of the former presidents who were still living during the assasination of President Kennedy. The others were President Truman and President Eisenhower. I wonder what their comments on that sad event in US history.
miftahalzaman 2 years ago 2
if do-nothing hoover was such a great humanitarian;he wouldn't have sat by and let this country starve during the great depression
melollylolly 2 years ago
who knows...FDR got us into a war...that killed a lot of Americans...did we need to go to war? Did the powers that be want Hitler to be a tyrant? It is up to historians to let us know the truth...
12345678927269 2 years ago
boooooo herbert hoover! make no mistake about it; this man is responsible for the great depression-and he didn't do anything to fix it--it took franklin delano roosevelt--who at least came up with programs to relieve this great american tragedy--hoover was one of our worst presidents-how he showed his do-nothing face in public for decades afterward is beyond me
melollylolly 2 years ago
Umm, you just made a mistake "about it". Hoover was President for just 8 months when the depression hit. The depression lasted clear into 1940 and the only reason we came out of it is that we began building the European War Machine, and then entered the war in 1941. Unemployment was even higher in FDR's first term and lingered around 15% until 1940. The building projects, while useful, were a temporary fix to a long term problem. The Smoot-Hawley tariff was Hoover's achilles heal. Look it up.
1965JWP 2 years ago
@melollylolly Your an ignorant fool. Do your REAL homework. You know nothing of what you speak of.
capevideo 2 years ago
The cutting taxes to very rich would work in an ethical society and in turn they would hire more employees . Instead they do other wise
123demaio 2 years ago
Hoover and Bush both cut taxes for the very rich . This doesn't work do ti greed
123demaio 2 years ago 2
Cutting taxes for the rich is the right thing to do. When the rich have more money, they invest in the market and spend what they don't invest like there's no tomorrow. They money doesn't stay in a warehouse like Scrooge Mc Duck, and you liberals need to learn the obvious. This stimulates the economy. I'm sick of this idiotic idea of punishing the rich for being rich. What are you going to do when Obama, McCain, Pelsosi and the Neo Progressives come for your money?
63whiskey 2 years ago
You should stop drinking that whiskey.
grabit1 2 years ago
If you're old enough to remember hoover than you should at least have an ounce of common sense.
Explain to me the justification for taxing the rich excessively.
And answer my question, what are you going to do when the yuppie liberal progressives come for your money?
63whiskey 2 years ago
First, you define "excessively." Next, you explain how the spending of 0.1% of the populace "stimulates" the economy. You explain why someone who's never done anything except live off the tit of family or tax-breaks deserves more breaks. No knock on hard-earned and wealth with integrity and pay-back, but your trickle-down economics is a proven fraud that only leaves wet mold stains. I don't worry about yuppie liberals getting my money. I hide the silverware only when I encounter your ilk.
grabit1 2 years ago 2
@63whiskey giving tax breaks to the super rich in time destroys the middle class, concentrates wealth and businesses in a few hands which hurt the overall economy. id much rather 85% of the population able to buy cars, college ed, homes, open small businesses with money to spare for spending into the economy. when wealth is in the upper 5% of the pop. our industries, factories, car manuf. and construction all suffer. fuck reagan and bush they are failures and liars. they kiss big bankers ass
pat442389 1 year ago
Hoover was a decent prez, the only reason he is so maligned is because he made the unforeseen mistake of sticking to the "tried-and-true" methods to get us out of the Depression. FDR was more of an experimentalist would try almost anything, even Socialism Lite (The New Deal). The result was, unemployment got worse under Hoover, while it improved under FDR at the same time of blowing up the deficit. In retrospect, both were kind of weak.
whoareu90 2 years ago
The war helped lower unemployment, not his pathetic policies.............
abaskcasckbackj 2 years ago
The New Deal is a classic example of attacking the symptoms and not the source. It managed to get unemployment down to about 25% to 15%, but it did take the war to finally get it down to 0. It's attempts to reverse the Depression through spending caused inflation that helped the workers, but not the consumers.
whoareu90 2 years ago
Couldnt have said it any better
abaskcasckbackj 2 years ago
The workers ARE the consumers. Geez . . . But I won't argue that the war was the real end of the Depression, and that the sources were altered by definition. And necessity.
grabit1 2 years ago
Hoover, by most accounts (and I'm old enought to remember when he died), was at least a decent person, and a bona fide humanitarian. But probably not presidential material, and certainly not then. Kinda the Jimmy Carter of Republicans, he stayed on the national scene for three decades after leaving office.
grabit1 2 years ago 11
Really, no one knows if anything could have eased the depression. People still debate whether the New Deal had any real affect or if it only ended with time (and a boost from WWII). But when it came to humanatarian work, the dude was a miracle worker. If it wasn't for his appalling racism against African Americans, the guy should have been nominated for sainthood.
Kazenou 2 years ago 2
cant wait to live in an obama house!
invisi3ill 2 years ago
I would love to be named after a dam.
bellsmyre49 2 years ago 3
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Yes the Herbert Hoover tradition carries on to this day as Barak Hoover Obama.
jmkpns 2 years ago
That's correct.
Nowadays Hoover is Obama.
At least, the Hoover's fate waits for Obama.
kotovsergey 2 years ago
@ comercio76: hey brother - CNN is for current events, not history.
inablinc 2 years ago
He was the perfect example of "what not to do" during a depression time. He didn't inject (estimulus) money in the mainstream. That's why republicans are stubborn, they don't care if the underdogs are suffering.
comercio76 2 years ago 3
@comercio76 actually, his mistake was surely NOT that. His raising of taxes and imposition of new tariffs to stifle international trade were the stupid things that enhanced the depression. As seen from 1933-1939, injecting money into the economy and expanding the reach of government did little to help the United States as well. If anything, both Hoover and Roosevelt were inefficient at dealing with the Depression.
l3lackman2 2 years ago 3
well they didn't interject, but reduce taxes and the federal budget in 1920 and America got out of the 1920 depression within a year.
MuskratandRatman 2 years ago
Didn't work in 1929. Actually it got worse.
MrPontiusPilate 2 years ago
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MuskratandRatman 2 years ago
No shit sherlock. He didn't do anything after the election. The economy got worse. Supply side economics wasn't capable of pulling the entire nation out of the whole. I don't think Hoover was a bad man just and ineffective president.
MrPontiusPilate 2 years ago
you don't realize that he lowered the budget and lowered taxes. That worked in 1920 it took one year to get out of that depression. Hoover had barely 2 months to prove anything.
MuskratandRatman 2 years ago
No shitsherlock. Answer what did he do to get the nation out of the depression. Lowered taxes and a lowered budget did nothing for the millions in bread lines. Things only got worse during the Hoover presidency.
MrPontiusPilate 2 years ago
@comercio76 your just saying what the democrat/media complex says cuse they know you wont check your facts. hover put all kinds of goverment programs in place. FDR even campain against his spending during their election.
81Deadpool 1 year ago
He passed away a few years after this. Not one of our best republican Presidents.
bjr43 2 years ago
only presidents Carter, Ford and Hoover are the only presidents to live for more than 25 years after leaving office.
thedayxyz 2 years ago
John Adams left office on 4 March, 1801 and died 4 July, 1826. That's over 25 years.
IgnatzKolisch 2 years ago 3
Our first engineer president, our first Stanford-grad president, the guy who fed war-weary and starved Europe, a martyr to political fads. He wasn't a terribly outstanding POTUS, I'll grant you that. It was his fate to meet the Perfect Storm of economic calamity. Still, there were millions of Americans in 1932 who wanted to Hold On To Hoover...and though they removed his name from "Boulder Dam" for a while, Hoover Dam it remains to this day.
margotdarby 2 years ago
Wow,back when America had REAL leadership and strength. Before Marxism and socialism took over. Well,FDR was actually a little taste of Socialism but even his "programs couldn't get us out of depression. It took a World war to do it.
OldMrMemories 2 years ago 2
He started breaking down at the end when he remembered his presidency was a total disaster and nearly destroyed the country.
esb84 2 years ago
GOD HE HAS A HUGE HEAD!
danemaricich13 2 years ago 19
Big brain.
BlakeMason2 2 years ago
amazing he died AFTER kennedy.
danemaricich13 2 years ago 2
Interesting. By the way he talks ("America is in the midst of a frightening moral slump"), you would not think that it was his party that had occupied the White House for the past 8 years. I wonder how Eisenhower felt about that. I was only 5 at the time, so I don't recall, but I *think* Nixon was promising continuity, not making a McCain-style attempt to distance himself from his president. Did Hoover' words echo a theme of the convention? Anyone know?
TroyOi 2 years ago
What did he say about lower taxes and smaller government? I couldn't hear it.
LeoHareMusic 2 years ago
1952 "THE THING" dead ringer for it!~
nmfd72 2 years ago
He was the most unfairly maligned president in our history!
10xjava 2 years ago
i don't know about that, he made some pretty bad decisions right after the stock market crash. but i still dont think people need to curse his name like they do. he was just not meant to be a depression president, i dont think. truman sent him to germany to do some work after ww2 and he was pretty good at that.
mellophonius 2 years ago
Certainly Hoover was one of he most maligned; I would add Warren Harding and Ulysses Grant to that list, Harding being a very fine president indeed. My candidates for the most overpraised presidents would be Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Jackson, Jefferson and Truman. I generally disagree with the historians and the history books, preferring to make my own opinions; one thing we all agree upon is the greatness of George Washington.
billyguns2 2 years ago
So very well put billguns2. Todays classrooms give nary a clue to students about the true great leadership of Washington. It's sad.
OldMrMemories 2 years ago 2
My list of favorite U.S. presidents: Washington, Coolidge, Cleveland, J.Q. Adams, Tyler, Hayes, Arthur, Grant, T. Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. JFK would have proven very interesting and beneficial had he lived, IMO; he was making rapid changes and turnarounds in his thinking just before he was killed by the fearful.
billyguns2 2 years ago
He looks alien in nature!
lsl70 2 years ago
Wow, Hoover really needs a napkin for that greasy forehead.
NotoriousPimp24 2 years ago
Jimmy Carter will be 85 this year.
mortysand 2 years ago
I like the shots of the convention floor... kinda low key compared to the way they do those productions today, eh?
uebergeek 2 years ago