[NVDave]

Yep. You cannot believe how many people are just flat-out convinced that Hoover was POTUS for the whole of the 20’s.

These same people are also convinced that Hoover was a free marketeer, too. The look at me as tho I’m a martian when I tell them of Hoover’s wage controls and extraction of promises from corporations to not lay anyone off.

To be fair tho, many people on our end of the spectrum are ignorant of how many of the farm subsidy programs they blame on FDR actually started under Hoover.

[bruinbirdman]

" You cannot believe how many people are just flat-out convinced that Hoover was POTUS for the whole of the 20’s."

The whole 20's thingy perhaps comes from his being Secretary of Commerce from 1921-'23 (under Wilson) and '24-'28 (Coolidge). Then he was elected President. In the meantime, Andrew Mellon was SecTreas the whole time.

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