We're now on the 30th day of my daily presidents threads celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA.Today we have Herbert Hoover (8/10/1874 - 10/20/1964), who served as president from 1929 to 1932. Prior to being president he was the secretary of commerce and director of the food administration. He'd also led the federal response to the Great Mississippi Flood in 1927, the American Relief Administration after World War I in Europe, and after the presidency chaired the 1947 Hoover Commission. Notable actions or events during his presidency include the Great Depression, the Federal Farm Board, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the Hoover Dam, the Hoover Moratorium on Germany, the Davis-Bacon Act, repealing the 18th Amendment, the Lily-White Movement, Mexican Repatriation, the Bonus Army, the 20th Amendment, the Stimson Doctrine, and the rocky transition to the Roosevelt Administration.What do you think of the guy who outlived his entire cabinet?
>>18536430he and Carter proved that engineers are not presidents
Maybe a good president in a quieter time.
>>18536430Hoover was far more of a statist liberal than memes indicate. Perhaps not as willing to go as far as FDR did but he did stuff like beg corporations to not fire workers despite collapsing demand for their products. Andrew Mellon believed the economy would quickly turn itself around if the free market sorted things out unmolested.
tomorrow's thread is gonna be bad, very very bad indeed
>>18536538He revised himself post-presidency to be Mr. Conservative, something he never was.
He didn't hold elected office before being president, he didn't understand politics or how to pass bills that well.
Hoover was the first Republican to carry Texas in 1928. Four years later he got ~~10% of the state's votes.
>>18536430My grandfather absolutely despised him
>>18536837people forget he still got 15 million nationwide votes 1932. FDR was still a question mark for a lot of people and at that point had only a vague hope and change message with no real platform. the New Deal didn't exist yet, his advisors only sketched it out in the months after the election.
The 21st Amendment moved the presidential inauguration day to January 20 to prevent another lengthy transition period in the event of a national crisis after Hoover had to still be president for four agonizing months following the 1932 election during which time he tried unsuccessfully to get FDR to offer him some help; the latter insisted he wasn't president yet and had no legal authority to do anything.
>>18536430Hoover started the move towards a more diplomatic handling of Latin American relations and abandoned TR's gunboat diplomacy. However the Depression had caused American demands for Latin American exports to drop like a rock so there was also less need to be aggressive.
>>18536538TPBP
>>18536664Coolidge once said "That man has offered me lots of advice over the past six years, all of it bad." William Taft was loathe to retire from the Supreme Court despite increasingly poor health as he believed Hoover to be a socialist and worried about him appointing his successor.
>>18536538The 1920-21 recession was quite severe but it soon ended. There is reason to think economic recovery might have started in 1932 but for uncertainty surrounding FDR's election.
>>18536904Coolidge caused the great depression and Taft's definition of a socialist was "anyone who actually works for a living" so fuck them both.
>The collapse of the US dollar made Americans less aggressive with their southern neighbors and Hoover was able to inaugurate an era of goodwill instead of interventionalism. He negotiated a new treaty with Haiti that paved the way for the total removal of American troops from there two years later. The last soldiers also left Nicaragua in 1933 after nearly 20 years. Hoover's successes in foreign policy stood in contrast to the catastrophic domestic situation, and he set the stage for FDR to improve on this foundation.
>>18536430OP, please include a link to the previous day's thread when you make future threads.
>>18536852your grandfather sounds like a retarded faggot.
>>18536837That was only because his opponent was a Catholic. Without Al Smith on the ballot Hoover wouldn't have performed nearly as well as he did in the South. Just remember that Coolidge and Harding did better than Hoover nationally and couldn't win more than one or 2 southern states.
>>18537214Regardless if Coolidge caused or not the Great Depression, Hoover and FDR made it last far longer than it needed to. FDR even caused another recession in 1937! The fact that cripple still managed to get reelected thrice despite never fixing the problem that got him elected in the first place just goes to show how much people are guillible sheep.
>>18537234Coolidge was a New Englander so he didn't really appeal to the South anyway. Hoover was Midwestern so they could get with him more.
>>18537225Fuck you, sniveling ape
>>18537259stop advertising yourself on grindr.
the Bonus Expeditionary Force disaster finished him off
>>18535860>>18536430And then in 1929,The market crashes and we find...It's Herbert Hoover's big debutHe gets the blame and loses to...
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>>18536430He once said if you're not a millionaire by 30 you're a failure.
>>18536857Hoover was an ineffective speaker compared to FDR, especially on the radio.
>>18537234The Republican brand was still strong in 1928 and the country saw no reason for change just then.
>>18536543I assume OP will stop at Clinton as Bush is still mostly off-topic except the first couple months of his presidency.
>>18537272Well if your father would stop wearing speedos exposing his pecker on there i wouldn't have to!
