People thought Hoover as a conservative and Roosevelt as conservative. To what extent are those valid ?

Answer 1

Not valid. I think Hoover was a conservative but the same can't be said for FDR (which I presume you are asking about as opposed to TR). He introduced Social security. He sought an 'activist' Supreme Court. He launched government programs to help the poor, the unemployed. Roosevelt virtually introduced the concept of helping people and solving problem through government. Something conservatives hate and would undo if they could.

Answer 2

If you read their respective campaign speeches during the campaign of 1932, Hoover comes across as much more of an interventionist when it comes to governmental involvement in the economy. Roosevelt sounded much more conservative in his approach. But, the Spring of the following year told a much more different tale.

Answer 3

They are labels of propaganda. Hoover wore dresses and had a gay lover. Is that conservative?

He was the strong arm of the conservative end of government that was seeking to serve the few rich at the expense of the poor through anti constitutional controls.

Roosevelt had a female lover on the side while he was married. Is that conservative?

Ok, maybe it is since the leadership of today's Republican party dallies around in the same ways.

Back then, you couldn't talk about homosexuality and infidelity. Today, it's way out in the open, but they still deny that it exists. That's pretty conservative.

Answer 4

FDR was no conservative----fact is he was the most socialistic president in the history of our nation----and the nation is still suffering from it.