What does herbert hoover have to do with the great depression?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Mr Hoover depressed everyone.

Given that the lack of water, which British band "The Who" indicated at the Isley of Wheat concert in 1970/1969 or possibly at any post-war gig post-1956... was always going to be a bummer: La Hoover produced big-time!

Oooh... a great big dam! An enormous depression. A depression so big that it became known as the "Hoover Dam".

Are you aware that 'hoover', as close as it is to 'hover', references a vacuum cleaner?

Seriously, he was one of the best presidents that you ever had. Tried to get on with it and, to a certain extent, succeeded.

Paul

Answer 3

He was elected in 1928 and the Great Depression began the next year. Hoover's response to the depression led to his defeat in 1932.

"Hoover is still remembered primarily as a heartless depression president despite his philanthropic and government work during the First World War as head of the Commission for the Relief of Belgium, then as director general of the postwar American Relief Administration, and finally as President Woodrow Wilson's U.S. food administrator and director general of relief for Europe. These activities had made him such a popular figure by 1920 that both parties courted him as a presidential nominee."

"In response [to the Great Depression], he called business leaders to the White House to urge them not to lay off workers or cut wages, and he urged state and local governments to join private charities in caring for destitute Americans. Believing that a dole would sap the will of Americans to provide for themselves, he adamantly opposed direct federal relief payments to individuals, though in 1932 he finally allowed relief to farmers through the Reconstruction Finance Corp."

"After he entered the White House, Hoover's previous business, philanthropic, and public relations skills seemed to fail him in the face of the worst depression in the country's history. Nevertheless, some of his ideas for combating the depression, such as the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, aid to agriculture, and long-term public works and relief appropriations, were adopted and popularized by his successor, Franklin D. Roosevelt. "We didn't admit it at the time," FDR's aide Rexford Tugwell recalled in a 1974 interview, "but practically the whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started." Hoover proved to be his own worst enemy as president, often clinging publicly to his least rather than most advanced economic thinking, approving, for example, the Smoot-Hawley protectionist tariff in 1930."

Answer 4

He inherited a long term problem, but then didn't do much to stop it or correct it when the market crashed. Wrong time to get elected.