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This demonstration of raw power touched a sensitive nerve with the public. Though he was cheered in some quarters for taking decisive action against radicalism and rebellion, the president's handling of this crisis revealed him to many as an inept and weak leader. Against American veterans President Hoover had sent battalions of armed American soldiers, a decision that he, while never comprehending how unsettling an experience it had been for the nation, would have to take full responsibility. It was the last straw for many a voter. That became a lesson not lost on President Hoover's successor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who, when confronted in 1935 with another bonus march, did not hesitate to provide the demonstrators with quarters in a nearby army depot and, in a further display of his compassion, with quantities of food and even entertainment.
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