Question

Initial Post:

Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt had very different attitudes about government and approaches to deal with the Great Depression. Describe each president's approach to the economic crisis, with examples from the speeches of President Hoover versus President Roosevelt.

Analyze the two approaches and consider:

• What was the long term impact of each President's actions?
• How did these different approaches change what Americans felt the government should be doing for them?

Your initial post should:

• Be 300-400 words in length.
• Describe each President's approach and consider the impact.
• Give at least one example from each President's speech.
• Use formal academic language, including MLA format citations- both parenthetical citations in your post, and full citations at the end. Please refer to the class Writing Guidelines and/or the MLA citation resources for a refresher.

Answer 1

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT(FDR)

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt,(DEMOCRATIC PARTY) a fifth cousin of former President Teddy Roosevelt, was raised amid privilege in Hyde Park, New York. He attended Harvard University, was elected to the New York State Senate in 1910, and served as assistant secretary of the Navy during the First World War. From 1929 to 1932 he served as governor of New York Roosevelt was elected President of the United States in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944. He served as the nation’s 32nd president from March 4, 1933, to his death in 1945.

1. Roosevelt and the New Deal: In his 1932 run for the presidency, Roosevelt asserted that he would help “the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid,” and pledged himself to “a new deal for the American people.” In his First Inaugural Address, saying “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he sought to reassure the public amid the anxieties of the Great Depression As president he championed the series of federal legislative initiatives known as the New Deal. The New Deal was not a blueprint for action but was instead animated by a spirit, as Roosevelt said, of “bold, persistent experimentation,” in which he would “take a method and try it: if it fails, admit it frankly and try another.

HERBERT CLARK HOOVER:

He was born in 1874 in Iowa and was the first US president to have been born west of the Mississippi River. He worked as a mining engineer and an independent mining consultant, travelling the world and building a sizable personal fortune. When World War I broke out, Hoover became active in humanitarian work and chaired the Commission for Relief in Belgium, which provided relief to that country as it faced a food crisis brought on by the German invasion in 1914

• He also served as the director of the American Relief Administration, which was formed in 1919 and supplied relief to war-torn Europe and Russia.
• During the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover head of the US Food Administration, which sought to reduce consumption and avoid wartime food rationing. Hoover went on to serve as Secretary of Commerce in the administration of Warren G. Harding
• Hoover sought to reform the nation’s regulatory system.
• Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department prosecuted gangsters, including Al Capone, for tax evasion

1. Hoover and the Great Depression: In1929, the stock market crash catalyzed the onset of the Great Depression.^55start superscript, 5, end superscript Though Hoover has gained a reputation for dithering in the face of economic peril, his administration actually pursued measures that helped lay the basis for Roosevelt’s New Deal. Hoover launched a massive public works program, part of which included funding for construction of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. His administration implemented stronger protections for labour and substantially increased federal subsidies for agriculture
2. Hoover also played a key role in passing the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932.

-->Hoover’s most notable foreign policy achievements were in Latin America. His administration laid the groundwork for what became the Good Neighbor Policy under Hoover's successor Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Good Neighbor policy explicitly disavowed military interventionism in hemispheric relations. Hoover himself embarked upon a goodwill tour in Latin America, travelling to ten countries and delivering pledges to reduce US political and military interference in the domestic affairs of Latin American countries.

-->Hoover's government was most successfully lead the American citizens but he raised the tariff rates on thousands of imported goods and initiated a trade war between the United States and Europe, therefore slowly the global economic growth turndown due to this Hoover ran for reelection in 1932, his inability to mitigate the negative economic consequences of the Great Depression had made him widely unpopular. He lost the election to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt.