Herbert Hoover

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/15/2020
  

  As Biden Prepares To Take Office, FDR's Presidential Transition Offers Lessons

  Historian Robert Dallek interprets Franklin Roosevelt's core challenge at inauguration as producing a program of reform to stabilize the economy without indulging the currents of authoritarianism sweeping Europe. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/9/2020
  

  The End of the Businessman President

  by Kyle Edward Williams

  Will Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic mark the end of the pernicious myths that the popular good is served by running government like a business, or that business executives have a talent for governing? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  11/13/2020
  

  Trump Continuing to Fight on Could Cost American Lives, Jobs and More

  by Eric Rauchway

  Herbert Hoover's refusal to support FDR's policy agenda during his lame duck period delayed economic recovery at the cost of jobs, homes and lives. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/31/2020
  

  Donald Trump May Not Be Herbert Hoover

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Trump, unlike President Herbert Hoover, may usher us into a true Great Depression and possibly not suffer a staggering defeat at the polls in November, as that president did in 1932.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  5/4/2020
  

  Could Trump Go the Way of Herbert Hoover?

  Will the ignominious political fate of Herbert Hoover await Donald Trump when voters deliver a verdict on his tumultuous presidency in November?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/13/2020
  

  The Republican President Who Vetoed a Great Depression Rescue Package in an Election Year

  In 1932, President Hoover was also wary about government spending during an economic crisis.

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• 4/12/2020
  

  Herbert Hoover and Donald Trump: Two Studies in Failed Crisis Leadership

  by Robert Rupp

  If history shows Hoover followed the wrong path for principled reasons, what will it say about Donald Trump, who has several tools that were not available to Hoover?

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/3/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Test Is Too Hard for Trump

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president joins Herbert Hoover and James Buchanan as a leader who failed when it mattered most.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/23/2020
  

  Covid-19 May Destroy Donald Trump’s Presidency

  by Meg Jacobs

  Has Trump plunged America into another Great Depression?  

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• SOURCE: Atlantic
  Accessed 2/1/19
  

  The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government

  What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-13-18
  

  The time a president deported 1 million Mexican Americans for supposedly stealing U.S. jobs

  Herbert Hoover's approach is echoed in the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

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• SOURCE: Brisbane Times
  6-11-18
  

  When Hitler met Hoover

  Dictators have scored presidential face time before.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  12-27-17
  

  Lessons from an Unseemly Presidential Transition—From Hoover to F.D.R.

  by Amy Davidson Sorkin

  Hoover and FDR didn't tweet, but they did trade telegrams.  Their exchange during the transition shows how power is exercised.

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• SOURCE: Moyers & Company
  12-7-17
  

  The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.

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• 10-28-2017
  

  When Herbert Hoover Ended the Great Depression. (No, I’m Not Kidding)

  by Kenneth Whyte

  It’s time to reassess Hoover’s legacy.

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• 12-25-16
  

  It’s Time to Give Herbert Hoover a Second Look: An Interview with Biographer Glen Jeansonne

  by Jennifer Freilach

  “Except for failing to end the Great Depression in one term, which no one could have done without a war, Hoover was a success in America.”

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• 12-23-13
  

  Herbert Hoover’s Crusade Against Collectivism

  by George H. Nash

  A newly-discovered memoir by the thirty-first president has just been published by the Hoover Institution.

• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  3-29-13
  

  William Lambers: Remember the Hungry This Easter

  William Lambers partnered with the UN World Food Programme on the book Ending World Hunger. He is a member of the Feeding America Blogger Council.A survey by the National Retail Federation says Americans will spend about 17.2 billion dollars on Easter this year.Imagine if that spending could be changed, just even a little bit. If one billion of that amount went to global hunger relief it could fund humanitarian emergencies in war devastated Syria, South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Mali and other countries.At the time of Easter 1946 Americans cut back on festivities in order to help those suffering in countries leveled by World War II. While the hard fought war had been won, the peace had not. Hunger was enemy that remained. The U.S. Army in Austria, for instance, was helping provide school meals to hungry children.Americans listened to the plea of President Harry Truman around Easter when he warned, "we cannot ignore the cry of hungry children. Surely we will not turn our backs on the millions of human beings begging for just a crust of bread. The warm heart of America will respond to the greatest threat of mass starvation in the history of mankind."