MY SAY: AN EXCELLENT PRESIDENT WHO LOST RE-ELECTION DUE TO THE DEPRESSION OF 1929
Herbert Hoover was a successful mining engineer for a private corporation in China, when he and his wife were trapped by the Boxer rebellion. Under heavy fire they erected barricades, worked in hospitals and rescued Chinese children. This valor and talent for organization came to the attention of President Woodrow Wilson who appointed him to head the Food Administration during World War 1 to help secure food and sustenance for the beleaguered Europeans, a task he continued after the war as head of the American Relief Administration.
The foregoing brought Herbert Hoover to the public and political arena, hailed as “The Great Humanitarian.”
After serving as Secretary of Commerce under President Calvin Coolidge Hoover became the successful Republican candidate for the presidency in 1928. Within months into his term the nation spiraled into an economic depression for which he bore absolutely no blame.
His attempts to create a Reconstruction Finance Operation to aid business, agriculture, mortgage relief and loans to states to help the unemployed were continually foiled by a hostile Congress.
As a principled Conservative, he reiterated his view that local and state administrations must be the primary sources of decision and support for their citizens.
The media and Congressional antagonists and opportunists blamed him for the depression and called him cruel, indifferent, and incompetent. He lost to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
After his loss he was a powerful critic of the “New Deal” and of President Roosevelt’s callous indifference to the plight of European Jews. He continued to write columns and books until his death in 1964.
President Trump now faces a calamity for which he bears no blame. He may not have the probity, immaculate personal life or elegance of Herbert Hoover. But, unlike Hoover, Trump is a scrapper and fighter and has grabbed the pandemic and economic chaos by the …er….roots. He has also fought the turpitude of his political antagonists and the libels of fake news.
And, Joe Biden is no Franklin Delano Roosevelt……rsk
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