In retrospect President Herbert Hoover's attempts to deal with the Depression were relatively innovative and well intended. Some of his ideas, for instance the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, continued to become part of Roosevelt's New Deal program. Hoover was also personally moved by the suffering of people during the Depression. But Hoover's political style was fixed to an older age, one that saw personal expressions of sympathy as irresponsible. "No president," he told an adviser, "must ever admit he has been wrong." By 1932 Hoover's apparent indifference to the plight of the common man.....
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