Memorable Quotations from Herbert Hoover (English Edition)

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) was America’s 31st president. He took office in 1929, the year the American economy plunged into the Great Depression. As the Depression intensified, Hoover failed to acknowledge the gravity of the situation or employ the clout of the federal government to directly address it. A prosperous mining engineer before entering politics, the president was generally perceived as unfeeling and unmoved toward the distress of millions of despairing Americans. Hoover was defeated in the 1932 presidential election by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt.