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Herbert Clark Hoover August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964 Political Party: Republican Terms of office: March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933 Vice President: Charles Curtis

Herbert Clark Hoover's name was long associated with the suffering and misery of the Great Depression, and in popular mythology and political rhetoric it still conjures up visions of a hard-hearted. From me President Hoover can get only a C- grade because of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, none of which produced economic recovery during his presidency.

Hoover's goal was to solve all issues about the Great Depression to cut 160million taxes doubled amount spent on public work. In 1942 he called for unheard-of production goals. So basically Hoover's goal was to stimulate food production, control food prices, and create surpluses for export to American allies.

Before the Great Depression Hoover's relationships with the Congress were pretty descent. President presented to Congress a program asking for creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to aid business, additional help for farmers facing mortgage foreclosures, banking reform, a loan to states for feeding the unemployed, expansion of public works, and drastic governmental economy. But he had a lot of opponents in the Congress who talked about him as a callous and cruel President. They made him the scapegoat for the depression, Hoover was badly defeated in 1932.

Actually it's very hard to say that Hoover's presidency had positive or negative outcome. We can contrasted it negatively with Roosevelt's New Deal and contrasted it positively also seeing Hoover as an anti-rooseveltian but the former deploring stance against needed forms of government invention and the latter deploring the nation's movement away from his wisdom. Of course, it was dealing with business crises and had attempted to develop new political and social machinery for that purpose. However that had formed a continuum, dividing line between the new and the old.The new scholarship began to alter the whole framework of the interpretive debate, undercutting the premises of established positions and bringing new questions to the fore.

President Hoover was a reformer. His presidency had attributes foreshadowing a new managerial role for the American presidency, and that its policies seem best explained by the Hooverian variant of progressivism that guided their formulation. However this created mechanism was inadequate to deal with the problems they were seeking to solve and sometimes used illiberal and undemocratic methods. Hoover's presidency was reformist, activist, principled, it was also a failed presidency, economically, politically, and its prescriptions for social distress.

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