Herbert Hoover Quotes
If someone could get off a good joke every ten days I think our troubles will be over.
Contrast this with FDR’s “nothing to fear but fear itself.” The troubles were too great for the tonic of Presidential humor.
Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964, 31st President of the United States (Republican, IA), 1931
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Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician, businessman, and engineer, who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. Before serving as president, Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration, and served as the third U.S. Secretary of Commerce.