... Great Depression. Roosevelt adopted a strict hands-off approach to the policies of his predecessor, President Herbert Hoover, during the transition period. By the time Roosevelt became president in March, the economic situation had become ...

... even denied the divinity of Jesus. What candidate, from either party, would dare do that today? The reviled Herbert Hoover, late in his only term, turned against his Depression-era "purge the rot" Wall Street advisers and pioneered ...

... Investors are preparing to close out the last three trading days of 2008 with Wall Street's worst performance since Herbert Hoover was president. The ongoing recession and global economic shock pummeled stocks this year, with the Dow Jones industrial ...

... rose 184.46 to 8,668.39, while broader indexes also gained. The stock market has seen its worst year since Herbert Hoover was president, with the Dow down roughly 36 percent. The Conference Board's Present Situation index, which measures ...

... and the United States would do well to heed. Eisenhower was the first Republican to occupy the White House after Herbert Hoover, who in the 1950s still wore a mantle of shame for his role in the market crash of 1929 and its aftermath. Eisenhower ...

... vote in his race for re-election. Richard Nixon and George W. Bush were party-smashing disasters comparable to Herbert Hoover (another Big Government Republican). Only Ronald Reagan succeeded as both president and party builder. It is true ...

... relief. (Unemployment insurance did not exist until the Social Security Act of 1935 was passed). Unfortunately, Herbert Hoover's RFC didn't offer the funds to the states as grants but as loans. Already all-but-insolvent, many states ...

... Obey had a ready retort. "They don't look like Herbert Hoover, I guess, but there are an awful lot of people in this chamber who think like Herbert Hoover," he said, referring to the president whose term ...

... that said: "We want jobs, Mr. Hoover" and "Reagan says his economic program is working are you?" President Herbert Hoover's term is forever linked in history with the Great Depression. Those not as badly hurt have fuzzy memories of the ...

... the one about Americans being the sort of folk who pull themselves up by their bootstraps, is useful. President Herbert Hoover called it "rugged individualism," the notion that a country of immigrants who generally came here under less ...