Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Herbert Hoover Redux >> 1.0 Scale of 1 to 10 Read: 4 Propped: 2 Prop it Herbert Hoover converted a mundane recession into the greatest economic disaster in modern history - the Great Depression.  

The ghost of Herbert Hoover , the U.S. president toppled by the Great Depression, is stalking a generation of world leaders battling to save their economies, as well as their own political skins, from the ...  

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It was a hard week for John McCain: after his lackluster debate performance, an unflattering report on Sarah Palin's trooper business, and continuing turmoil in the stock market, he's down in the polls .  

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The ghost of Herbert Hoover , the U.S. president toppled by the Great Depression, is stalking a generation of world leaders battling to save their economies, as well as their own political skins, from the global financial crisis.  

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Chad Rubel  "Hey, hey, hey, how far down did the Dow dip today?" Yes, that is a parody of the 60s chant, "Hey, hey, LBJ, How many kids did you kill today?" And no, I'm not trying to equate the falling of the Dow to those who were killed in Vietnam, not by a long...  

An 1840 Tippecanoe Club ribbon, bundles of ballots from the 1864 presidential race and a "Dicky Poo for '72" button are among the political items on display at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum in ...  

Since the 1930s, the typical story about Herbert Hoover's presidency has been that he stood by and did nothing while the economy crashed. Hoover was a firm believer in laissez-faire, so the story goes, and believed that the "invisible hand"...  

Top national stories from AP On Oct. 5, 1931, President Hoover wrote a letter to George L. Harrison, Federal Reserve Board of New York, on that era’s ...  

A very old story is once again being retold, with a few of the characters' names updated to besmirch the innocent.  

Herbert Hoover, 31st President, widely believed to have done nothing to end the Great Depression. (AP (file)) In this economy, it's smart to save. ...  

Historical ignorants shackle free -marketeers with the ghost of Herbert Hoover while pining for some new form of the New Deal to save us from a looming ...  

The political Quote of the Day comes from the Washington Post’s always-solid columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr., who makes the case that the 2008 Barack Obama versus John McCain election has echoes of the 1932 FDR versus Herbert Hoover election. A key quote: Obama and McCain are giving us a clear sense...  

Barack Obama Herbert Hoover Here's an intriguing comparison for you, courtesy of Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt: Barack Obama equals Herbert Hoover. “Now is not the time to adopt the policies of Herbert Hoover , protectionism and higher taxes," Blunt ...  

As Jonah Goldberg writes, "The specter of Herbert Hoover is conjured every time there's an economic calamity, large or small": But you know what? Specters are ghosts.