What were some great things Herbert Hoover did for our country as President?
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President Herbert Hoover entered office to much acclaim. Aside from satirists, the majority of the American public liked him, mostly because of his humanitarian work in China, Europe, and Russia. Hoover was believed to know the answers to all questions. However the stock market crash of October 1929 proved all of Hoover’s supporters to be wrong.\n\nHoover was the last president of the triple republican 1920s. He was to take over after Harding and Coolidge, two men who did nothing and are regarded as some of America’s worst presidents. Thus, all Harding really had to do was surpass Coolidge’s apathy a small bit to gain the approval of the public.\n\nThe stock market crash proved Hoover’s inability to be the president. He was not successful in attempting to end the depression. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff simply magnified the problem, and spread the depression to other countries. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was not as successful as could have been imagined.\n\nIn addition, it is essential to realize that Hoover’s name was detestably used to describe the effects of the Depression. Hoovervilles (slums built by the unemployed), Hooverflags (empty inside-out pockets), and Hooverblankets (using newspapers as blankets). This indicates that Hoover was not well liked by the people after the Depression hit.\n\nThe manner in which Hoover handled the Bonus Army was very distasteful. Although the veterans were protesting in an unruly manner, it is never appropriate for a president to order the military to attack veterans. The entire ordeal was poorly handled, and is a huge demerit when considering Hoover’s overall rating.\n\nFinally, Hoover was unable to improve the economy while the depression was still in its early stages. Instead, he passed laws which did little, if anything to help ease the problem. Sometimes, as in the case of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Hoover actually ended up hurting America further. Basically, Hoover was not able to employ apathy like his predecessor, but his actions were unsuccessful.\n\nBasically, Hoover was a president who was unable to control the problems which were occurring in the country. He failed to heal the social problems which he hoped to as entering office. As a whole, his administration was a failure. He was not able to continue to do worldwide humanitarian work like before his presidency because the United States was in such bad condition. For all of the aforementioned reasons, I believe Herbert Hoover was not a very effective president. He is somewhat redeemed (for two points) because he was widely lauded as an excellent president when he was elected, and he did a little bit of good before the Great Depression crippled the nation.
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I can't think of a thing he has done for the little people but he sure has done a lot for the rich and for other countrys. Like giving away our ports. sending jobs south of the border. That is about all I can think of at this time.
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This passage was copied from the following site below:\n\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html\n\nHe was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority. \n\nMy point is this: This was a very bad time for the American people. The major issue during this period was trying to survive!\nHave you guessed who the president was?
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FDR defeated Herbert Hoover in a landslide
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Warren G. Harding was the President who succeeded Wilson. He wasn't very good at it.\n\nAlso, do your own homework.
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Most definitely. As the leader of the United States during arguably the most difficult time of our history, he pushed Congress to pass emergency bills and reform measures that helped improve the economic situation in the eyes of the public. Though many historians say the beginning of World War II ended the Depression, I think that if it weren't for FDR's leadership, American morale would have fell too far to possibly recover economically.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt. The many changes he made in government made America a much better place to live than before he took office.
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In attacking the Great Depression he did much to develop a partial welfare state in the United States and to make the federal government an agent of social and economic reform. His administration indirectly encouraged the rise of organized labor and greatly invigorated the Democratic party.
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Here's a statistic to blow your mind. The Great Depression caused 1 out of every 3 Americans to be unemployed. Only with Roosevelt's plan of giving them government project work did America rise back up as a renewed superpower.
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1. Abraham Lincoln--kept the nation together in its most difficult time and was comitted to stopping the spread of slavery.\n\n2. George Washington--gave the country a chance to grow and set many precedents for the future of the country.\n\n3. Franklin Roosevelt--Saw the country through the Great Depression and World War II, promoted essential anti-poverty measures.\n\n4. Harry Truman--Established the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan (both would prove critical in ending the Cold War), integrated the Army and put the Civil Rights movement on the national stage.\n\n5. Thomas Jefferson--Doubled the size of the country with the Louisiana Purchase and ensured that the government stayed in the hands of the people.
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i sense a homework question.\n\nSince they were in a Great Depression stage after Hoover's administration, FDR decided to do a complete makeover for the country.\n\nHis first days in office was an overhaul of the lassaiz-faire government and replaced it with hands-on government. He decided to have government funded projects to get people out of poverty as well as clean up the government which Coolidge's and Harding's administration left behind.
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I believe what makes a great president are a combination of extremely good ethics and a well defined understanding of the human factor involved in such great responsibility. \n\nThe president who uses these best has worked towards balancing National domestic needs and International good will.\n\nAs selected by the Democrats, and leading the list for best President since 1945 is Ronald Reagan. \n\nSurprisingly, the same is true of the Republicans. They considered him over Abraham Lincoln.  See list:\nPoll Results: Which Republican President Was Best?  \nAbraham Lincoln     34.69% \nTeddy Roosevelt     16.33% \nCalvin Coolidge         6.12% \nHerbert Hoover          0 0% \nDwight D. Eisenhower    0 0% \nRichard Nixon     2.04% \nGerald Ford    0 0% \nRonald Reagan     36.73% \nGeorge HW Bush     2.04% \nGeorge W Bush      2.04% \n\nOf course there are those in Princeton who think George Bush is the best...I guess they don't follow the news.\n\nAnyway, as a Canadian, it was President Clinton and President Franklin D. Roosevelt who impressed me the most.
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Theodore Roosevelt a Reublican helped create most that you can visit today.
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Charles Curtis.  He was from Kansas.  He served for all of Hoover' term (1929-1933).  He basically did nothing.
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The site below gives you all the details you want and probably more.  =)  Check it out.  It's clearly written and very through.\n\nTheodore Roosevelt (26th President of the U.S.)\n Presidency 1901-1909 and what he did in office:\n5.1 Anthracite coal strike of 1902 \n5.2 Square Deal \n5.3 Regulation of industry \n5.4 Conservationist \n5.5 Foreign policy \n5.5.1 Panama Canal \n5.6 Life in White House \n5.7 Presidential firsts \n5.8 Supreme Court appointments \n5.9 States admitted to the Union
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FDR he was a bit on the liberal side at the begining of his term but when he was confronted with the beginings of WW2 he did the right thing and suported the british when no one else would and he did some contraversial things like move our teritorial waters out to 400 miles so that our coust guard could do somthing about the U boats sinking our transports. He was just what we needed at the time and no other president did more for the country or the world than he did.
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Accomplishments as president:\n\n    *\n\n      Attacked and took over two countries.\n    *\n\n      Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.\n    *\n\n      Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.\n    *\n\n      Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.\n    *\n\n      Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.\n    *\n\n      First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.\n    *\n\n      First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.\n    *\n\n      First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.\n    *\n\n      In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.\n    *\n\n      Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.\n    *\n\n      Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.\n    *\n\n      Signed more laws and executive orders circumventing the Constitution than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.\n    *\n\n      Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.\n    *\n\n      Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.\n    *\n\n      Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. HE HAS TO BE THE WORST PRSIDENT EVER IN OUR HISTORY, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM?? I CAN CAN YOU MORE FACTS!!!