Posted on 08/12/2016 5:23:27 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever
...Though implementing a volunteerism plan of aid through the States, political opposition prolonged recovery, thereby sabotaging his reelection.
Hoover warned in a speech at Madison Square Garden, NY, October 31, 1932, against his opponent's collectivist "New Deal" plans of the government taking control of businesses:
"To enter upon a series of deep changes...would be to undermine and destroy our American system...
No man who has not occupied my position in Washington can fully realize the constant battle which must be carried on against incompetence, corruption, tyranny of government expanded into business activities...
Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die."
(Excerpt) Read more at campaign.r20.constantcontact.com ...
As Archie Bunker used to sing, “Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again...”
No, really. We COULD.
The New Deal was mostly Hooverism with a better disposition and a large democrat majority. Coolidge should have run in 1928.
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