Herbert Hoover: An Uncommon Man

This documentary showed during the Nebraska state-level competition of National History Day. It was presented by Roger Carlson and Thomas Zimmer.

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[Pectoris4]

Dear Thomas, As a longtime admirer of Mr. Hoover I wish to congratulate you on this fine work. What a great 10 minute summary of a 90 year life!

[ThomasZimmer]

Thank you kindly. I'll past that on to my partner.

[MartinLuther105]

FDR did nothing more than take the policies and programs of Herbert Hoover and call it his New Deal. Let us look at a possibility here. there were many good things to come from FDR im sorry Hoovers policies that we can be grateful for. but imagine if FDR was only elected twice he would have left office with the country still in the depression. WW2 is what saved him. pretty shameful president, cheated on his wife, and dies in the arms of his mistress. Hoover should have been re-elected!!!!

[ThomasZimmer]

Amen, brother.

[honkycabbit]

Hoover got such a bad rap with great depression. It's not fair!

[ThomasZimmer]

Amen, brother.

[dookierope22320]

many people don't know this about herbert hoover is that for his entire 47 years in government he turned over each of his federal salary checks to charity. he had become independently wealthy before entering politics so he didn't need it. now how many presidents, senates, and governors did that let alone have the character herbert had.

[FollowTheLambs]

I used to be a mining engineer like Hoover, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

[RockyBalboa211]

A GREAT MAN!

[episkyros]

Herbert Hoover depended on the original trickle-down economics and was let down by it...and by the unwillingness of people to starve to death rather than ask government for help. FDR was less ideological and more pragmatic: if Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation could not stimulate business to help the country, FDR reasoned that help would have to reach the country more directly, saving the market economy for what it could properly be expected to do.

[episkyros]

Herbert Hoover seems to have been an idealistic, patriotic, strangely (and fatally) inexpressive Christian man blindsided by the forces of Corporatism and general political corruption, which had no interest in preserving the notion he had of an 'American Way of Life' of 'rugged individualism'. Unfortunately, he didn't know he was half-championed by unpatriotic, backstabbing money grubbers, and he did not take charge of the Bonus Army episode.

[episkyros]

I think what lost the 1932 Election for Hoover in a definitive way was what the U.S. Army did to the Bonus Army. Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur's paranoid anti-bolshevism over-rode Pres. Hoover's instructions to simply escort the Bonus Army from the city. Under MacArthur's orders the Army acted like a goon squad and teargassed, cavalry-charged and beat up the WWI vets. Hoover said nothing and did nothing, and everyone except he knew he had just lost the Election a few months later.

[episkyros]

The best biography of Hoover I have ever read is "The Shattered Dream" (1970) by Gene Smith. It puts one in context, it is fair, and ultimately enlightening. Not that the writer comes out and says it in so many words, but the reality of Republican-Party political collusion with Big Business and the banking industry (Corporatism, as Ron Paul terms it) is what let Hoover down.