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    sure to keep an eye out for references to documents that I may have missed. The delineations of the words "liberal" and "conservative" shifted at the start of the Great Depression. Although laissez-faire policy was thought to be liberal in the Roaring 20 ’s‚ the year 1929 quickly changed America ’s idea of liberalism entirely. The hardnosed Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the saavy Herbert Hoover both believed they alone could improve America ’s economic depression. Their political standings have been

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    of the Great Depression‚ Herbert C. Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt were presidents. Both presidents had programs that were set to mollify the depression and to take the economy out of it. The actions they took and the goals they set‚ labeled them as either liberal or conservative. However the characterizations of these two are valid only to a certain extent because both took actions that showed they were both liberal and conservative. Neither President Hoover nor President Roosevelt can be strictly

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    Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert C. Hoover were two very different leaders during a time of struggle in America‚ The Great Depression. They also had different ways and theories on how to get America out of it’s slump. Hoover felt that in order for the economy to get better‚ the government should not expand any more than it had to and that the people should take care of their own problems with the help of only volunteers and such‚ which was a very conservative stance. On the other hand

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    President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin D. Roosevelt both played a significant role in promoting economic opportunities during the Great Depression based on their own political ideologies. For example‚ Herbert Hoover’s reacted based on his conservative viewpoint and President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a liberal viewpoint. Both presidents succeeded in promoting economic opportunities during the hard times‚ but I believe that President Roosevelt’s actions succeeded in advancing economic opportunities

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    HERBERT CLARK HOOVER Herbert Clark Hoover was a President of the United States of America that faced many challenges as President. He was elected to office as a Republican with what many believe to be a guaranteed win due to many splits with in the Democratic party. But after obtaining the Office he faced his first major hurdle as President when the stock market fell. Contrary to popular belief President Hoover was a good president because of his work as a geologist‚ miner‚ public

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    States’ 31st president Herbert C. Hoover and it’s 32nd president Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ so much so that their administrations and thoughts on how to run the country existed on two completely different paradigms in relation to their views on the governments role in society. To begin with‚ the Grand old man and the New dealer start out with a difference in the very foundation of their political standpoints. Herbert Hoover was affiliated with the Republican Party while Franklin D. Roosevelt was

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    Did Hoover deserve the label of ‘The do nothing President’? As the American boom turned to bust President Hoover didn’t act upon the change but instead predicted that this negative change would not last the country would Boom once more. Unfortunately as the depression spread and began to affect everyone in the country he realised that his government would have to take charge. Hoover and his government are famously accused for having done nothing however this claim may not have been completely

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    either a Liberal or a conservative standpoint. A liberal is one who may be considered a radical‚ one who believes government has a role to play in our lives and moves towards the new age of humanity. Conservatives share a completely different set of beliefs‚ they believe in the old ways‚ a government which doesn’t influence our lives‚ and side with the rights of states and the people. According to these beliefs Hoover follows conservative beliefs more or less and Roosevelt follows a more liberal beliefs

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    from wage cuts around 50% and those who lived in the mid-west were subject to regular dust storms and droughts that amplified the suffering compared to those who lived elsewhere 1 . The president at the time‚ Herbert Hoover‚ was struggling to alleviate the great depression with some programs that resembled what FDR later expanded on. Hoover’s economic policies‚ were seen in the public as hurting‚ or at least not helping the economy during the great depression 2

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    Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10‚ 1874. He was the thirty first president of the United States. Hoover’s Term for President was from 1929 to 1933. He was a world-wide known mining engineer and humanitarian administrator. • "As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge‚ he promoted economic modernization. In the presidential election of 1928‚ Hoover easily won the Republican Nomination. The nation was prosperous

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