Herbert
Hoover.... The President Who Took The Media Rap For The Great
Depression
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By: Watchman
Date: Monday, 10-Aug-2015 16:45:31
Date: Monday, 10-Aug-2015 16:45:31
Herbert Hoover was born Aug. 10, 1874.
His Quaker mother taught Sunday School and spoke
at Friend’s meetings before dying when he was ten. Hoover lived on an
Indian Reservation in Oklahoma before moving to Oregon. He worked his
way through Stanford University doing laundry, delivering papers and
working for the U.S. Geological Survey. He became a world-renowned
engineer.
Trapped in China when the Boxer Rebellion broke
out in 1900, Herbert Hoover directed the building of barricades under
heavy fire while his wife worked in the hospital. In World War I, at the
request of the American Consul, Hoover helped 120,000 Americans
stranded in Europe return home. He directed the feeding of Belgium after
Kaiser Wilhelm II overran it and orchestrated feeding the Allied
nations while avoiding rationing at home. After the war, Herbert Hoover
arranged the feeding of millions starving in Central Europe and Russia. He served as Secretary of Commerce for Presidents Harding and Coolidge.
Of President Harding, Hoover wrote in his
memoirs (published 1952): “(Harding) had another side which was not
good. His political associates had been men of the type of Albert B.
Fall (Teapot Dome Scandal) … Harry Daugherty (bootlegging scandal) …
Charles Forbes (embezzled $225,000). … He enjoyed the company of these
men (in) weekly White House poker parties … the play lasted most of the
night. … It irked me to see it in the White House.”
In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded, leaving
1.5 million people displaced from their homes. Herbert Hoover mobilized
state and local authorities, militia, army engineers, the Coast Guard
and the American Red Cross, and set up health units which stamped out
malaria, pellagra and typhoid, gaining him national appreciation.
In 1929, Herbert Hoover became the 31st U.S.
president. In his inaugural, March 4, 1929, President Herbert Hoover
entreated: “Ill-considered remedies for our faults brings only penalties
after them. But if we hold the faith of the men in our mighty past who
created these ideals, we shall leave them heightened and strengthened
for our children. … I ask the help of Almighty God in this service to my
country.”
Less than eight months later, the stock market crashed due to domestic and international conditions.
Though implementing a volunteerism plan of aid
through the states, political opposition tended to prolong recovery,
thereby sabotaging his re-election.
Hoover warned in a speech at Madison Square
Garden, New York, Oct. 31, 1932, against his opponent’s collectivist
“New Deal” plans of the government taking control of businesses: “To
enter upon a series of deep changes … would be to undermine and destroy
our American system. … No man who has not occupied my position in
Washington can fully realize the constant battle which must be carried
on against incompetence, corruption, tyranny of government expanded into
business activities. … Free speech does not live many hours after free
industry and free commerce die.”
In 1935, the Hoover Dam was dedicated. Later
that year, Sept. 17, 1935, Herbert Hoover stated in San Diego,
California: “Our Constitution … is based upon certain inalienable
freedoms and protections which in no event the government may infringe. …
It does not require a lawyer to interpret those provisions. They are as
clear as the Ten Commandments. … Behind them is the conception which is
the highest development of the Christian faith – the conception of
individual freedom with brotherhood.”
Herbert Hoover proposed a solution to the Middle
East crisis which was reported in a Scripps-Howard Press interview,
Nov. 19, 1945: “My own suggestion is that Iraq might be … the scene of
resettlement of the Arabs from Palestine. This would clear Palestine
completely for a large Jewish emigration and colonization. A suggestion
of transfer of the Arab people of Palestine was made by the British
Labor Party in December, 1944.”
His entire life Hoover refused payment for public service.
At a reception for his 80th birthday in West
Branch, Iowa, Aug. 10, 1954, Herbert Hoover stated: “I have witnessed on
the ground in 20 nations the workings of the philosophy of that
anti-Christ, Karl Marx. … I want to say something … not in the tones of
Jeremiah but in the spirit of Saint Paul. … Our Founding Fathers did not
invent the priceless boon of individual freedom and respect for the
dignity of men. That great gift to mankind sprang from the Creator and
not from governments. …
“Today the Socialist virus and poison gas
generated by Karl Marx and Friedreich Engels have spread into every
nation on the earth. … Their dogma is absolute materialism which defies
truth and religious faith. …”
Hoover continued: “A nation is strong or weak,
it thrives or perishes upon what it believes to be true. If our youth
are rightly instructed in the faith of our fathers … then our power will
be stronger.”
Hoover concluded: “To this whole gamut of
Socialist infections, I say to you … God has blessed us with … heritage.
The great documents of that heritage are not from Karl Marx. They are
from the Bible, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of
the United States. Within them alone can the safeguards of freedom
survive.”
In his Memorial Day address at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania, 1931, President Herbert Hoover stated: “If, by the grace
of God, we stand steadfast in our great traditions through this time of
stress, we shall insure that we and our sons and daughters shall see
these fruits increased many fold.”
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