STEP AWAY FROM YOUR COMPUTER! May 31, 2009
The fact is that Reagan viewed himself as another FDR, and Carter as a Herbert Hoover. The economic history of that time showed that Carter was more of a fiscal conservative than Reagan, who more closely fits the description of a Conservative Democrat than a Republican. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
SSNHA awards $47,128 in grants May 30, 2009
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association Inc., $3,600, develop a volunteer retention program for interpretive re-enactors. Iowa Falls Historical Society, $5,000, support the exhibition and programming for a National Endowment for the Humanities traveling exhibit. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Equality is not equal to justice May 29, 2009
"It's apparent that you didn't open the address I gave you. If so, you wouldn't be responding the way you did."The economy is following the same tracks as it did in 1929 under FDR."Excuse me, but Herbert Hoover was president from 1929 to 1933. He was a Republican and born in Iowa. I'd think that you'd remember that. FDR didn't become president until 1933. ("hfrmack" is not the first person on the hard right to make that mistake. I'm not sure what causes them to make the same mistake over and... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Caudill Named to Developmental National Team May 29, 2009
(Herbert Hoover H.S. / San Diego, Calif. (DeMatha H.S. / Bowie, Md. (DevilsDigest.com)
Obama aims to change court's face May 27, 2009
Cardozo was nominated to the court by President Herbert Hoover in 1932. He was a member of a prominent family of Sephardic Jews who claim Portuguese heritage. (News & Observer)
Memorial Day events May 19, 2009
Herbert Hoover Historic Site. WEST BRANCH, Iowa Celebrate Memorial Day from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday, May 25, at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum ... Games and home crafts demonstrations by costumed volunteers take place near the Herbert Hoover Birthplace Cottage. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Hospital time capsule a snapshot of '29 May 16, 2009
The flawless penmanship made note of religious and government leaders of the day: Pope Pius XI, President Herbert Hoover, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Albany Mayor John Boyd Thacher. What was described in a local newspaper account as a "throng" of 2,000 people attended the ceremony, including Bishop Edmund F. Gibbons. (Albany Times Union)
Sixten Iowa children become naturalized citizens aboard train May 14, 2009
Two upcoming sites include the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch and the Fossils and Prairie Parks Preserve in Rockford. "When we go to each location with the children, they'll always remember that specific location and the day they became citizens," Hartman said. (Mid Iowa Enterprise, IA)
Opposition gets in a muddle over figures May 14, 2009
The Finance Minister, Lindsay Tanner, later rounded on his opposite number, Helen Coonan, for taking economic policy advice from Herbert Hoover, the US president who led his country into the Great Depression. After debating Senator Coonan at an accountants' breakfast, Mr Tanner told Parliament she "opened her contribution by quoting approvingly a quote on the evils of debt from none other than Herbert Hoover at the 1936 Republican convention" ... "Herbert Hoover, of course, was the President of... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Raymond Saulnier, top adviser to Eisenhower on economics May 11, 2009
At his wife's memorial service, Dr. Saulnier recalled that when they first became acquainted that he had just cast a vote for Herbert Hoover, for which he had no apologies then or since, and that she was looking to "socialist Russia for an answer" to human ills. But with some earnest tutelage on his part, he added, "we were soon close enough together - somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum - to make life reasonably harmonious.". (Boston Globe)
Federal Homeownership Subsidies Have Left A Trail Of Catastrophes May 7, 2009
In 1922, Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover launched the "Own Your Own Home" campaign, hailed as unique in the nation's history. Responding to a small dip in homeownership rates, Hoover urged "the great lending institutions, the construction industry, the great real estate men ... to counteract the growing menace" of tenancy. (Investors Business Daily)
The burden of elitism May 6, 2009
Herbert Hoover wrote in his memoirs about mainstream liquidationist sentiments after the 1929 crash. The "leave-it-alone liquidationists" headed by Secretary of the Treasury [Andrew] Mellon [1921-1932. (Asia Times Online)
The Cult of Ronald Reagan, part XIV May 5, 2009
Anything from rewriting the positive effects that the New Deal is well known to have had on ending the Great Depression, to elected officials like Michelle Bachman attributing the Smoot Hawley act, legislation written by two Republican Congressmen, passed during the Republican presidency of Herbert Hoover, to rehabilitating Ronald Reagan, often simply lying by stating his approval ratings were never below 71 percent (because that was Clintons highest rating), to asserting that the Clinton... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Sticky times May 5, 2009
After the onset of the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover orchestrated a behind-the-scenes attempt at a wage freeze, to prevent wages from falling. His successor, Franklin Roosevelt, went further, instituting anticompetitive price fixing schemes using the National Recovery Act, and a vast regime of quota guarantees and price supports for agriculture. (Townhall.com)
Finding Atlas May 1, 2009
Both Roosevelt and his hapless predecessor, Herbert Hoover, tried to inspire confidence by keeping unsuccessful enterprises afloat at the expense of successful ones. Strangely, prudent investors declined to be stimulated, no matter how fervently they were exhorted to trust the government s programs. (The American Conservative)
The Harding Way Apr 29, 2009
From 1929 onward, Herbert Hoover and then Franklin Roosevelt tried to fight an economic depression by making labor costlier to hire. Warren G. Harding, on the other hand, said in the 1920 acceptance speech he delivered upon receiving the Republican nomination, I would be blind to the responsibilities that mark this fateful hour if I did not caution the wage-earners of America that mounting wages and decreased production can lead only to industrial and economic ruin. (The American Conservative)
FORMER PRESIDENTS: A look at other 100 days in office Apr 29, 2009
"If we go there, for the next 100 days President Obama would be working very hard to try not to be the Herbert Hoover of the 21st century.". Even so, Cole describes possible bankruptcy as a necessary threat to force an agreement in the "cage match" between the UAW and the Chrysler bondholders, with the federal government acting as referee. (USA Today)
Don't judge Obama's legacy on first 100 days Apr 28, 2009
Franklin D. Roosevelt's vigorous response to the Depression, which he inherited from the surprisingly activist Herbert Hoover, usually earns Roosevelt high praise. The presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson was shaped in part by his escalation of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam - a bad decision that ultimately cost him his job. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician... Apr 28, 2009
The last American president to train as an engineer was Herbert Hoover. Why do different countries favour different professions. (The Economist)
Obama shines bright in first 100 days Apr 28, 2009
Obama's popular vote margin over John McCain was 7%, but Franklin Roosevelt clobbered Herbert Hoover by 17% in 1932. FDR, too, had a banner 100 Days during which he established the foundations of the New Deal -- which brought about Social Security, the National Labor Relations Act, the WPA and, best of all, an end to Prohibition. (Variety)
Despite Doom and Gloom, St. Louis Envisions Economic Recovery Through ARRA Funds Apr 28, 2009
In an interview, St. Louis Cardinals Chairman and CEO Bill DeWitt, Jr. stated that "We have a partnership with Major League Baseball. We're creating the Leagacy Fund, which is a $2 million dollar fund to help the City of St. Louis, and provide funds to build the Herbert Hoover Ballpark and to renovate the Mathew-Dickey Ball-Field," stated DeWitt. DeWitt added that scholarship funds will be provided for needy youth through the Redbird Rookies Saigh Scholars Endowment. (Saint Louis Front Page)
Constitution no longer law of the land Apr 28, 2009
(older than 14 days). Article rated a 5 by 6 users. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
- Our Opinion: Is this just about politics? (2) Apr 28, 2009
But whatever you think of his presidency (and most polls show him ranking somewhere between Millard Fillmore and Herbert Hoover in the pantheon of failed commanders in chief), he wasn t evil. At the same time, his successor is proving every day that he isn t the superhuman change agent that some of his more ardent supporters continue to believe he is. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Presidential historian, biographer next speaker in EIU Edgar series Apr 17, 2009
Between 1987 and 2001, Smith served as director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa; the Dwight D. Eisenhower Center in Abilene, Kan. the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and the Reagan Center for Public Affairs in Simi Valley, Calif. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Pelosi Calls For Panel To Probe Wall Street Apr 16, 2009
The Pecora Commission was named after Ferdinand Pecora, chief counsel of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on banking, who led an investigation beginning in January 1933 during the administration of Herbert Hoover. Pecora was a high-profile figure who personally questioned many of Wall Street's most influential figures of the day. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
High expectations Apr 15, 2009
America's moving from Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt constituted a major lurch. Moving from a decreasingly visible Roosevelt to Harry Truman didn't amount to much. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Yes, Al Franken really IS good enough Apr 15, 2009
And if you truly believe GWB did an excellent job as President , I m guessing you think Herbert Hoover did as well. lwwmm7. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The economy's lowest point seems at hand Apr 14, 2009
President Herbert Hoover called it "rugged individualism," the notion that a country of immigrants who generally came here under less-than-optimal conditions is better equipped to handle itself when challenges emerge. If it's true, great. (Casa Grande Valley Newspapers, AZ)
10 ways it will look different Apr 13, 2009
During the Great Depression, a pants pocket turned inside-out to show it was empty was called a "Hoover flag," after President Herbert Hoover. Today's Hoover flag might be a "For Lease" sign in a strip mall. (Christian Science Monitor)
CODEPINK rages against the Larry Summers machine Apr 10, 2009
Viewed from a global perspective, economic conditions are deteriorating faster than they did in the glory days of Herbert Hoover. Monday, Apr 6, 2009 23:40 EDT. (Salon)
Many offices open in next year’s state elections Apr 10, 2009
We even voted for a liberal New York Catholic wet named Alfred Smith over a conservative Midwestern Protestant dry named Herbert Hoover when prohibition was the primary national issue in 1928. We were what you would call Yellow Dog Democrats. (Atmore Advance, AL)
Investors sought for film about Native sisters Apr 10, 2009
While Kingsley is producing the film, he is also slated to play Charles Curtis, the first and only Native American to serve as a U.S. vice president (to President Herbert Hoover). Curtis was a U.S. senator when the Conley sisters were fighting to protect the graves. (Missoulian, MT)
Should We Kill the Fed? Apr 9, 2009
Herbert Hoover, contrary to the myth that he was a small-government conservative, renounced laissez-faire, raised taxes, launched public works projects, extended emergency loans to failing businesses and lent money to the states for relief programs. Hoover did what Obama is doing. (Human Events Online)
Grassley talks to young professionals about bonuses and bailouts Apr 9, 2009
Asked about the current tax rate, he said government should follow the Hoover rule, a reference to the President Herbert Hoover, a man many blame for the Great Depression: "If Hoover did it, don't do it." Even President Barack Obama, "as liberal as he is," Grassley said, recognizes that he should not raise tax rates in a recession. Several people asked why there was no public outrage over bonuses received by the quasi-governmental mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, companies that played... (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Committing bad government is just too easy Apr 7, 2009
"Lest anyone forget, the Great Depression still had quite a long way to go after 1933. By most historical reckoning, it didn't truly end until the onset of World War II.So ... cheer up! We might be only eight years and another globally horrific armed conflict away from a real recovery! Andrew Leonard Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:40 PDT Just how stressful are the stress tests that are supposed to tell us whether American financial institutions are healthy enough to survive the remainder of the... (Salon)
Danger! Depression ahead Apr 6, 2009
Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt dragged out the depression by adopting counter-productive and seriously destructive policies. Hoovers administration was responsible for the Smoot-Hawley tariff debacle, which sharply increased tariffs on 887 items and extended the total of dutiable items to 3218. (iAfrica.com)
Tax cut better than future bankruptcy Apr 6, 2009
Conservative Jim wrote on Apr 5, 2009 1:41 AM:" Sorry Jerry, but Bush's combined debt accumulation (different than the budget deficit, since Bush made spectacular use of off-budget special funding requests, especially for his wars) for the last 8 years was $4.9 trillion (easily computable from http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np) and the FY 2008 debt expansion was $1 trillion, precisely as Tim reported. Bush was running massive deficits when the economy was decent, and left... (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Future flushed down sewer Apr 4, 2009
jgn69 wrote on Apr 3, 2009 9:56 AM:" I said Hoover, Reagan and GW Bush were the three buffoons who followed "Trickle Down economic" and thus all three crashed the stock market. I should have added a few other presidents also followed the theory (Coolidge and Harding) those two are often sited as great as Lincoln and Washington (kidding!) In fact, most historians rate Harding at the bottom of any list of effective presidents.Andrew Mellon, who had helped found the Alcoa aluminum company and Gulf... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
"War Is A Racket", A Book by a Deco... Apr 3, 2009
The name Hooverville was a mockery of the president for that time, Herbert Hoover. Many were blaming him for the economic collapse. (Suite101.com)
Madeline O'Donnell of Gloucester, aide to Herbert Hoover Apr 2, 2009
Madeline O'Donnell, aide to Herbert Hoover ... Madeline M. (Kelly) O'Donnell, an assistant secretary for Herbert Hoover when the former president headed a government advisory commission in the 1950s, died of complications of hip surgery March 28 at the Ledgewood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center at Beverly Hospital. (Boston Globe)
BACKSTAGE: Benefit concert planned for missing teen Apr 2, 2009
Created by Les Freres Corbusier theater troupe, it's the story of the disgraced and long-dead U.S. president Herbert Hoover attempting an Elvis-style TV rock concert comeback. Tuesday was Ralph Bryan Day in San Diego, an honor bestowed by the city and county of San Diego upon the board chairman of La Jolla Playhouse. (North County Times)
The New Deal dollar and the Obama dollar Apr 1, 2009
Midway through his first 100 days, sensitive to criticism of his "tell it like it is" warnings about the seriousness of the economic crisis, Obama shifted his rhetoric to sound like his campaign opponent, John McCain claiming that the economy is fundamentally sound, a line that sank the Herbert Hoover presidency in the 1932 presidential election. Very few people beside the diehard cheerleaders of free-market fundamentalism at CNBC, can now honestly conclude from either economic data or personal... (Asia Times Online)
GSA to spend $1.2B in stimulus funds in D.C. Apr 1, 2009
Herbert Hoover Building (Phase II and III), $225,638,000. 1800 F St. NW (Phase I) , $161,293,000. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Some politicians have trouble adapting to the Web Mar 30, 2009
But then he bestowed a "Herbert Hoover Award" on Gov. Chris Gregoire, likening a fellow Democrat to the Republican most associated with the Great Depression. Oh, and he referred to her no-new-taxes budget proposal as "moronomics.". (Longview Daily News, WA)
Will Bad Economy Lead To A New Outlook? Mar 29, 2009
Many members of the Old Right were laissez-faire classical liberals, some were business-oriented conservatives like Herbert Hoover; others were ex-radicals who moved sharply to the right, like John Dos Passos; others, like the Southern Agrarians, dreamed of restoring a premodern communal society. " Posted by curse914 at 8:51 PM : Mar 28, 2009 Yes it has, I'm out looking for a new job. Posted by mecanik-2009 at 8:49 PM : Mar 28, 2009 "And it's me I'll work the mill just as long as I am able But... (CBS News)
Leadership: A Euro Dissenter Speaks Out Mar 27, 2009
Why is it that a Merkel or a Nicolas Sarkozy hasn't the gumption to tell the president of the United States that he is following in the footsteps of Herbert Hoover. The great nations of Britain, France and Germany today are too meek to speak out in favor of economic freedom; it takes the plucky leader of a former Communist state. (Investors Business Daily)
The Teleprompter President Mar 27, 2009
It turned out to be former President Herbert Hoover, who ended up using a teleprompter for his remarks at that year's Republican convention. For politicians, the teleprompter has always been something of an embarrassing vice -- the political equivalent of purchasing cigarettes, Haagen-Dazs and a Playboy at the convenience store. (Townhall.com)
History lesson Mar 24, 2009
And, in the midst of the Depression, it has also turned to a new leader to replace the discredited Republican administration of Herbert Hoover. The new president appeared to embrace the cause of international cooperation. (BBC News -- Business)
A Hidden Agenda Behind the 90 Percent Tax? Mar 23, 2009
Then came the Depression, spawned in large part by Herbert Hoover and FDR, who raised the top tax rate to 63 percent, 70 percent, and finally 94 percent. The Robert Taft Republican Congress elected in 1946 lowered those tax rates, but they later bounced back to 91 percent, where they held until JFK proposed sweeping tax reform in the 1960s. (Townhall.com)
Some Forgotten Presidents Shouldn't Be Mar 22, 2009
His anointed successor, Herbert Hoover, won big in 1928, though it is clear that Coolidge was less-than-enthusiastic about the Great Engineer ... Herbert Hoover, all of his speechifying about individualism notwithstanding, was not the fiscal conservative many today make him out to be ... Ironically, when closely examined, Herbert Hoovers approach to economics had more in common with his successor than it did with the two men preceding him in the White House. (Townhall.com)
Things have been worse Mar 22, 2009
" Katie didn't embarrass her guest by pointing out that there were no TV broadcasts when Wall Street crashed in 1929 and that the president at the time was Herbert Hoover - though she would surely have pounced had Sarah Palin committed such a howler.Last week the vice president , asserting that President Obama "has inherited the most difficult first 100 days of any president, I would argue, including Franklin Roosevelt. "That may have generated quizzical looks, for Biden continued: "Let me... (Boston Globe)
On Your Mind Mar 22, 2009
Back during the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens who desperately needed work. Harry Truman deported over two million illegals after World War II to create jobs for returning veterans. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Real beneficiaries of AIG bailout Mar 22, 2009
What do Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower have in common. A great way to lower unemployment. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Doggone cute Mar 20, 2009
Now, when the hoboes and homeless in a shantytown beneath the highway sing a bitter song to former President Herbert Hoover, the audience can be forgiven for mentally replacing "Hoover" with "Bush.". That's not to say that anything's too terribly serious about "Annie." After all, any show in which a spunky orphan belts out, "The sun'll come out tomorrow/So you gotta hang on til tomorrow" has to have a happy ending -- and so, it's to be hoped, will the audience. (Anchorage Daily News)
'Bold Endeavors' is a breezy manifesto for government thinking big Mar 18, 2009
Eight decades ago, Herbert Hoover heard the same script when that Mr. Republican created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to battle the Great Depression. The RFC, blessed by Hoover with a then-extravagant budget and expanded by Franklin Roosevelt, lavished loans on financial companies, railroads, and states and bought stock in thousands of banks. (Boston Globe)
Boyd France; in '47 reporter talked to Exodus passengers Mar 16, 2009
An uncle, Joseph France, was a US senator from Maryland who sought the Republican nomination for president in 1932 as a progressive alternative to Herbert Hoover. Mr. France received a bachelor's degree in 1941 from Rollins College in Winter Park. (Boston Globe)
Upbeat messages for animal spirits Mar 16, 2009
Word has been bruited about that President Herbert Hoover used the word depression after the market crash of 1929 as a euphemism to avoid the more alarming panic. That does not check out. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
G-20 Countries Pledge Sustained Action Mar 15, 2009
Broad Agreement - But Some Fractures As Well - Among Economic Leaders On Restoring Global Growth. HORSHAM, England, March 14, 2009. (CBS News)
Worse than 1981-82? Recession on track to be longest in postwar period Mar 15, 2009
President Herbert Hoover s term is forever linked in history with the Great Depression. Like Reagan did then, Obama is dishing up hope. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Economy no factor in pay of college coaches Mar 15, 2009
In 1930, Babe Ruth was questioned about making more than then-president Herbert Hoover. I had a better year than Hoover, Ruth famously responded. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
'Old Madoff' Mar 14, 2009
" Meanwhile, Kreuger was seen as a business titan of the times, with his firms seemingly triumphing during the crash. President Herbert Hoover regularly sought out his advice about the problems affecting the global economy, and he consorted with Hollywood stars. He was hailed on the cover of Time magazine, and was seen as a hero in countries such as France, which he had bailed out with a huge loan. 'Valuable businesses' According to Professor Partnoy, there are differences between the feted... (BBC News -- Europe)
Should you fear Friday the 13th? Mar 14, 2009
Napoleon and President Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13. Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13. (MSNBC -- Health)
Larry Summers: There's never been a better time to buy! Mar 14, 2009
"Actually, what Republicans need to do is accept reality. Americans want a decent healthcare system. If there is an analogy to be drawn from "The Matrix" that applies to the current political scene, it's that Americans have finally woken up, and seen the world as it really is. Eventually, if Republicans want to continue participating in the governance of the United States, they will follow suit. Andrew Leonard Wednesday, March 11, 2009 07:48 PDT Two moments jump out of Treasury Secretary Tim... (Salon)
Take action to save our country Mar 13, 2009
Roosevelt's predecessor, Herbert Hoover, a Republican who had Republican majorities in both houses of Congress at the time, did not believe in government intervention, and allowed what was a recession to grow into the Great Depression. Some people either learn nothing from history or are ignorant of it. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
A dangerous balance Mar 13, 2009
China's effort to modernize an ancient society received well-wishing support form the enlightened US establishment, as exemplified by influential figures such as China-born of missionary parents Henry Luce in media, John D Rockefeller in philanthropy, Herbert Hoover in humanitarian relief and Franklin D Roosevelt in international politics. By 1924, impressed with the October Revolution of 1917 that eventually led to the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922. (Asia Times Online)
