I didn’t say he resolved it...it took time just as this one will, but he kept people alive...The American people were so traumatized by Hoover’s actions or non actions that they did not elect a Repub for president for 20 years.
Hoover's not-actions? He was incredibly activist. Read "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Schlaes.
I’m sorry, but I just reject your characterizations. Hoover a mass-murderer, FDR kept people alive ? I mean WTF ? He was a POLITICIAN for heaven’s sake. Domestically, FDR was the worst f**king disaster to hit this country... with only LBJ’s expansion of his policies and now the False Messiah. Best thing at the time at the start was to ride out the storm WITHOUT massive government intervention and had a little faith in capitalism and the resilience of our people. Look at the horrible precedent it set. The Founding Fathers and every responsible administration from then on never would’ve found that remotely acceptable. We had bad economic times before (hell, we had one in the 1890s), and we always bounced back. We STILL haven’t recovered from FDR’s mess and the disastrous course it set for the country. But Hoover was WORSE ? I’m sorry, but that is just beyond ludicrous.