I don’t look at history though partisan eyes...I see the tragedy in Hoover, the man. He was a great philanthropist you know. His policies just didn’t work...Roosevelt’s policies didn’t always work either...but he kept people going during the bad times and saved us from fascism and communism unlike Europe. Sometimes that’s all you can do- get through one day at a time during such times.
As I said, the only thing I give credit for is Roosevelt’s war policies (but he even had to bring in old-school Republicans), but one wonders how much more efficiently the GOP could’ve waged war once underway. But his capitulation to Stalin at Yalta was where his “good leadership” in that regard halted for good. FDR stayed longer than he ever should’ve. But knowing what I know now, I’d still have voted Republican in every one of those elections, even for subpar candidates. If Dewey had been elected in ‘44, we’d have been better off (and with his Conservative GOP VP, Bricker, an able-bodied successor for Dewey).
Truman, btw, came from a corrupt political machine my cousin opposed in the same state, and it was appalling that Truman, and not my cousin, did not land in the Senate after the excellent job he did in running St. Louis for 12 years, one of its last great Republican leaders. He was a contemporary of FDR and Truman’s.