| Hum Hover brought in the Federal Reserve, that is a major hit on his legacy.
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Posted on 01/05/2010 4:33:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Barack Obama has been compared to almost every American President of the last hundred years--favorably to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan; and unfavorably to Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. I want to put another name in the hat: Herbert Hoover.
It might seem ludicrous, or unfair, to compare Obama to one of the most vilified presidents of the last century, but that’s because Hoover’s reputation is largely, or at least somewhat, undeserved--the product of Democratic attacks and Hoover’s own strident responses to these attacks.
To his contemporaries, Hoover had been the American most suited to be president. He had performed brilliantly as head of American Relief Administration after World War I. In 1920, The New Republic and Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged him to run for president as a Democrat. Hoover chose not to run. Instead, he became perhaps the greatest of all commerce secretaries. He was responsible, among other things, for persuading industry to reduce overall costs by standardizing industrial parts and tools. Because of Hoover’s innovations, an auto mechanic could repair any American car.
Hoover was also not a conservative Republican like Calvin Coolidge, but a progressive who believed that capital and labor could work together with the encouragement of a beneficent government. In 1928, Hoover won the presidency in a landslide, and might have enjoyed success if the Great Depression had not intervened. Still, Hoover responded to the greatest economic crisis in the nation’s history. He funded what was then the largest peacetime public works expenditure. He signed a labor bill, the Norris-LaGuardia Act, that was the precursor of the Wagner Act. And he established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to lend money to ailing banks. The Hoover administration was the first in American history to use the power of the federal government to intervene
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no sane person would compare zero to RWR or even JFK.
Just bs from the Fascist DUMS
Hum Hover brought in the Federal Reserve, that is a major hit on his legacy.
Dam them both
I thought it was Woodrow Wilson.
More like Hoover Vacuum Cleaners....he SUCKS.
This guy is right about Hoover. He was an interventionist along with FDR.
I don't know about Hoover, but did anybody really think that Obama had the experience necessary to be president? Sure they might have felt he was "most suited to be president" but they weren't really thinking seriously about what his qualifications might be. It was emotionalism more than anything else.
Maybe it was the same with Hoover -- the idea of the genius "Great Engineer" -- but his bubble doesn't seem to have been as insubstantial as Obama's.
Hoover’s defeat led eventually to America’s revival. Obama’s defeat could speed the country’s decline.
As much as Obama's success would? Judis seems hung up on FDR. Either Obama is Roosevelt or he's Hoover. That looks like a pretty poor pair of possibilities either way.
Boulder did :)
Hoover was a highly capable administrator...terrible on policy as president...but world-class at running organizations to deliver aid overseas after both world wars.
Coolidge the best POTUS of the 20th Century?
Not even close
What, exactly, was so bad about Calvin Coolidge’s presidency?
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I'm sorry, you are not our new Jeopardy champion. The Federal Reserve system was established on December 23, 1913. Hoover did not become President until 1929.