Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Unfortunately, Herbert Hoover's RFC didn't offer the funds to the states as grants but as loans. Already all-but-insolvent, many states didn't take the ...  

Re: “New Deal prolonged the Great Depression?,” Jan. 2 David Sirota column. David Sirota claims FDR’s New Deal eased the Great Depression. However, he ignores substantive criticisms of FDR and fails to vindicate FDR’s policies. Sirota claims the economy grew, and unemployment shrank, under FDR...  

Blackwell summed up the GOP's conundrum best when he likened President Bush to Herbert Hoover this way: "Hoover opened the door to big government activism ...  

WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush suddenly saw that he could very well be the 21st century's Herbert Hoover. So after analyzing the imperiled economy ...  

By Michael Polak After going nearly a decade without fielding a swimming team, Herbert Hoover has returned to the sport. The Huskies didn't make much of a ...  

By Ed Driscoll January 4, 2009 09:16 PM Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal Oh, That Liberal Media! Just as Virginia Postrel spotted several journalists hot for " Depression Porn ", Ezra Levant reminds us that it's " ...  

Today, during the "lighting round" of the RNC Chairman candidates' debate, Grover Norquist asked candidates who their favorite Republican president is. None responded with President Bush. Responding to who is his least favorite Republican president, Ken Blackwell said Herbert Hoover -- and...  

I'm sorry to see Paul Krugman subscribe to the myth that Herbert Hoover's spending policies helped cause the Great Depression ("Fifty Herbert Hoovers," Dec. 30). Neither Hoover nor Franklin Roosevelt believed in deficit financing per se - FDR attacked Hoover for allowing this in the 1932...  

... Arizona Governor Jan Brewer repeat the mistakes of Republicans in the midst of the Great Depression, specifically those of President Herbert Hoover? ...  

In his closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans on Wednesday, Vice President Dick Cheney urged them to get behind the auto rescue package. “If we don’t do this, we will be known as the party of Herbert Hoover forever,” Cheney said. Ignoring the White House’s plea, Senate Republicans have...  

By PAUL KRUGMAN No modern American president would repeat the fiscal mistake of 1932, in which the federal government tried to balance its budget in the ...  

'THE PARTY OF HERBERT HOOVER'.... On Wednesday, Dick Cheney met with Senate Republicans and emphasized the importance of keeping the American automotive industry afloat. "If we don't do this, we will be known as the party of Herbert Hoover forever,".  

No modern American president would repeat the fiscal mistake of 1932, in which the federal government tried to balance its budget in the face of a severe recession.  

In their last obstruction, "Dr. No" Mitch McConnell's Senate Republicans blocked a bridge loan for the auto companies, unwilling even to sustain them long enough for a new administration to sculpt a responsible response to their crisis. What was the sticking point? It wasn't getting rid of...  

President George W. Bush suddenly saw that he could very well be the 21st century's Herbert Hoover.