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This poem although simplistic sums up President Hoovers accomplishments and his failures quite well.

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Please enjoy this Herbert Hoover poem, Hoobert Heever, by Denise Rodgers.

lived his life with style and flair.Popular with voting fans,Hoover had majestic plans: HOOBERT HEEVER
A President Herbert Hoover Poem

Once announced as "Hoobert Heever,"
Hoover was a great achiever.
Was a self-made millionaire,

A country rich with goods and cash.
But then, there came the market crash.
As people lost each prize possession,
Losing to the Great Depression,
falling like a ton of bricks,
tough to miss and hard to fix.
Voters made a new selection;
Hoover lost the next election.
Like the nation, lost his perk --
now unemployed and out of work.

Poem and Art by Denise Rodgers
Copyright©Denise Rodgers
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Facts about the Herbert Hoover Poem

Herbert Hoover was a self-made millionaire. He was a well-intentioned president that faced an unprecedented crisis -- the stock market crash of 1929. His goal was prosperity for all Americans. His plan was to build on that prosperity and erase poverty. But this did not work out. During Hoover's presidency, Harry von Zell, a young radio reporter, accidentally referred to the president as "Hoobert Heever" while reporting on the president's birthday on CBS radio. Despite Zell's shame at this blooper, he went on to enjoy a long broadcast career.

President Herbert Hoover Facts
31st US President
Term: 1929-1933

Political Party: Republican

Born: August 10, 1874, West Branch, Iowa

Died: October 20, 1964, Waldorf Astoria, NY, NY

Married: Lou Henry Hoover, 1899 - 1944

Herbert Hoover Pre-Presidency
Facts to Support the Herbert Hoover Poem

* Herbert Hoover was the son of a Quaker blacksmith in Iowa. He grew up in Oregon and later attended Stanford University, when it opened in 1891. He graduated as a mining engineer.

* Hoover married Lou Henry, a Stanford classmate. They immediately traveled to China where Hoover worked for a private corporation as China's leading engineer.

* In 1900, the Hoovers were in Tientsin, China, where they were trapped by the Boxer Rebellion. Under heavy fire, wife Lou worked in the hospital while Hoover directed the building of barricades and also risked his life rescuing Chinese children.

* Hoover also aided the effort of helping 120,000 stranded American tourists evacuate London after Germany declared war on France. This declaration put Americans traveling through Europe at risk.

*After the US entered WWI, President Wilson appointed Hoover head of the Food Administration for the war effort. Hoover managed to keep food stores for the Allies while successfully avoiding rationing on the home front.

* After the Armistice (truce of WWI), as head of the American Relief Administration and member of the Supreme Economic Council, Hoover organized food shipments to help feed millions of starving people in central Europe, as well as some aid to Soviet Russia in 1921. While some criticized the Soviet aid, Hoover, a humanitarian, was outspoken about bringing relief to starving people no matter their political ideology.

* As Commerce Secretary to both Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Hoover became the Republican presidential nominee in 1928.

* Hoover was optimistic that the US was closer than ever to triumphing over poverty. Unfortunately, within months of his election, the stock market plummeted and the US fell into the Great Depression.

President Hoover and the Great Depression:
Facts to Support the Herbert Hoover Poem

* During the Great Depression, 5000 banks failed, wiping out the savings of some nine million Americans. One hundred thousand jobs were lost each week over the next three years! This created a circular problem. People stopped buying and the economy continued its decline, and more jobs were lost. People lost their homes, and farmers were unable to make a living.

* By 1930, four million people were unemployed. By 1932, it was twelve million, and 25% of the country was out of work. There were soup lines for free soup, resorts became ghost towns, and America's trains ran empty.

* In an effort to keep jobs in the US, Hoover raised tariffs, his theory being this would increase the sale of US products. This unfortunately led to trade wars and the decline of US sales abroad.

* Hoovervilles sprang up. These were tent cities made of homeless unemployed citizens. There was a Bonus March of veterans who wanted their bonus pay early. They were turned away with bayonets.

* There was popular sentiment for the government to take action to improve the disastrous economy. While Hoover believed in individual responsibility and limited government, he did take action.

* Hoover presented Congress with a plan to create the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to aid business and farmers, as well as banking reform. Also included in the plan were loans to states for food for the unemployed, the expansion of public works, and drastic government economic cuts. This plan was opposed in Congress, and Hoover felt they did so for their own political gain, portraying him as an uncaring and cruel president. Hoover became the scapegoat of the Depression and was soundly defeated in 1932.

President Hoover's Post-Presidency:
Facts to Support the Herbert Hoover Poem

* During the 1930s, after his political defeat, Hoover criticized the New Deal, warning of a slide to statism.

* In 1947, Hoover was appointed by President Truman to head a commission to reorganize the Executive Departments. In 1953, President Eisenhower appointed him chairman of a similar commission.

* President Hoover wrote many articles and books after his presidency. in fact, he was in the process of writing a book when he died in New York City on October 20, 1964, at the age of 90.

If you enjoyed this Herbert Hoover poem and the accompanying facts, please go to the US Presidents page on this site for a link to other US Presidents. For background information about Herbert Hoover, go to WhiteHouse.gov.

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A President Herbert Hoover Poem and Herbert Hoover Facts

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Please enjoy this Herbert Hoover poem, Hoobert Heever, by Denise Rodgers.

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This political cartoon is actually supporting Hoover although he was very controversial because he was the political leader in the US in the great depression but in this it shows him helping the problems of the depression while his political rivals as a donkey not helping but actually being a distraction

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CARTOON: HOOVER, 1930. President Herbert Hoover trying to cope with the Great Depression while the Democrat opposition brays at Hoover's efforts to calm the growing storm. American cartoon, 1930, by Clifford K. Berryman.

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president herbert hoover trying to cope with the great depression while the democrat opposition brays at hoover's efforts to calm the growing storm. american cartoon

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0060447 - CARTOON: HOOVER, 1930. President Herbert Hoover trying to cope with the Great Depression while the Democrat opposition brays at Hoover's efforts to calm the growing storm. American cartoon, 1930, by Clifford K. Berryman.

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This is a Granger licensable image titled 'CARTOON: HOOVER, 1930. President Herbert Hoover trying to cope with the Great Depression while the Democrat opposition brays at Hoover's efforts to calm the growing storm. American cartoon, 1930, by Clifford K. Berryman.' by GRANGER All rights reserved.

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This graph shows one of President Hoover's greatest failure which is what many believed caused the great depression. This was the unemployment rate skyrocketing.

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Rugged Individualism One of President Hoover's beliefs and philosophies was Rugged Individualism, which was the idea that people should succeed through their own efforts rather than...

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These are photos of centrals park's Hooverville which shows how poor and needy these people in fact were. Looking at the house, it is clear they are build up by bits and pieces the families can afford just to put a rundown ceiling over their heads.

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During the Great Depression, in the 1930s, as millions of people lost their jobs and homes, shanty towns, also known as "Hoovervilles" began to sprout up across the US.

People experiencing homelessness made them from scraps of wood, tin, tar, and cardboard, and named them after Republican President Herbert Hoover, who Americans held responsible for not doing enough to alleviate the Depression.

One Hooverville emerged from a "dust bowl" that was created after a reservoir was drained in New York City's Central Park.

Central Park's Hooverville was by no means the largest, or around for the longest, but something about the small dilapidated shacks surrounded by some of New York's most impressive buildings caught people's imagination.

Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

In the early 1930s, New York City's Central Park was home to a small shanty town that residents experiencing homelessness built.

The ramshackle town was a "Hooverville," named after Republican President Herbert Hoover. Americans held him responsible for not doing enough to alleviate the Great Depression.

Hoovervilles appeared all over the US in the 1930s, some with as many as 15,000 residents. Despite their dilapidated condition, reports highlight how those living in them did their best to keep their homes tidy, and themselves presentable.

One man told a New York Times reporter in 1931: "We work hard to keep it clean, because that is important. I never lived like this before."

The Hooverville in Central Park was not the largest, or around for the longest, but something about that small group of shacks surrounded by some of New York's most impressive, expensive buildings caught people's imagination.

As one New York Daily News caption put it: "From their windows, the 'Haves' may look on the humble houses of the 'Have Nots'."

Here's what Central Park's Hooverville was like.

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Vintage photos show Central Park's Hooverville, a shanty town surrounded by skyscrapers, built by the homeless for the homeless during the Great Depression

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During the Great Depression, in the 1930s, as millions of people lost their jobs and homes, shanty towns, also known as "Hoovervilles" began to sprout up across the US. People experiencing homelessness made them from scraps of wood, tin, tar, and cardboard, and named them after Republican President Herbert Hoover, who Americans held responsible for not doing enough to alleviate the Depression.

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This video essentially talks about what how his incessant meddling that provoked the great depression.

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Hoover and the Great Depression | 5 Minute Video

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This is a painting taking place in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma which like the photograph gives a rundown feel but with the color it really shows the oddities used to make the houses and other materials.

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City - Oklahoma City OK - Hooverville 1939 Acrylic Print by Mike Savad

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A brief summary of the president's term and what he accomplished afterwards.

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Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), America's 31st president, took office in 1929, the year the U.S. economy plummeted into the Great Depression. Although his predecessors' policies undoubtedly contributed to the crisis, which lasted over a decade, Hoover bore much of the blame in the minds of the American people.

As the Depression deepened, Hoover failed to recognize the severity of the situation or leverage the power of the federal government to squarely address it. A successful mining engineer before entering politics, the Iowa-born president was widely viewed as callous and insensitive toward the suffering of millions of desperate Americans. As a result, Hoover was soundly defeated in the 1932 presidential election by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945).

Early Years

Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa-the first U.S. president to be born west of the Mississippi River. He was the second of three children in a family of Quakers, who valued honesty, industriousness and simplicity. His father, Jesse Clark Hoover (1846-80), worked as a blacksmith, and his mother, Hulda Minthorn Hoover (1848-84), was a teacher. Orphaned at age nine, Hoover was raised primarily by an uncle in Oregon.

Did you know? On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a law that made "The Star-Spangled Banner," based on an 1814 poem by Francis Scott Key (1779-1843), America's national anthem.

After attending Quaker schools, Hoover became part of the first class to enter Stanford University when it opened in 1891. He graduated four years later with a degree in geology and launched a lucrative career as a mining engineer. Intelligent and hardworking, Hoover traveled all over the world to find valuable mineral deposits and establish business enterprises to extract the resources. His work made him a multimillionaire. On February 10, 1899, Hoover married his college sweetheart, Lou Henry (1874-1944), and the couple had two sons, Herbert (1903-69) and Allan Henry (1907-93).

Humanitarian Work

At the start of World War I (1914-18), Hoover dedicated his talents to humanitarian work. He helped 120,000 stranded American tourists return home from Europe when the hostilities broke out and coordinated the delivery of food and supplies to citizens of Belgium after that country was overrun by Germany.

When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) appointed Hoover head of the Food Administration. Hoover encouraged Americans to reduce their consumption of meat and other commodities in order to ensure a steady supply of food and clothing for the Allied troops.

Once the war ended, Hoover, as head of the American Relief Administration, arranged shipments of food and aid to war-ravaged Europe. He earned worldwide acclaim for his humanitarian efforts, as well as thousands of appreciative letters from people across Europe who benefited from the free meals known as "Hoover lunches."

Hoover's success earned him an appointment as secretary of commerce under President Warren Harding (1865-1923), and he continued in this position under President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933). During the fast-paced modernization of the 1920s, Hoover played an active role in organizing the fledgling radio broadcasting and civilian aviation industries, and also laid the groundwork for the construction of a huge dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada. (Named after Hoover, the dam opened in 1936.)

The Great Depression

In the U.S. presidential election of 1928, Hoover ran as the Republican Party's nominee. Promising to bring continued peace and prosperity to the nation, he carried 40 states and defeated Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944), the governor of New York, by a record margin of 444-87 electoral votes. "I have no fears for the future of our country," Hoover declared in his inaugural address. "It is bright with hope."

On October 24, 1929-only seven months after Hoover took office-a precipitous drop in the value of the U.S. stock market sent the economy spiraling downward and signaled the start of the Great Depression. Banks and businesses failed across the country. Nationwide unemployment rates rose from 3 percent in 1929 to 23 percent in 1932. Millions of Americans lost their jobs, homes and savings. Many people were forced to wait in bread lines for food and to live in squalid shantytowns known derisively as Hoovervilles.

Hoover undertook various measures designed to stimulate the economy, and a few of the programs he introduced became key components of later relief efforts. However, Hoover's response to the crisis was constrained by his conservative political philosophy. He believed in a limited role for government and worried that excessive federal intervention posed a threat to capitalism and individualism. He felt that assistance should be handled on a local, voluntary basis. Accordingly, Hoover vetoed several bills that would have provided direct relief to struggling Americans. "Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury," he explained in his 1930 State of the Union address.

Post-Presidential Years

The Depression worsened throughout Hoover's term in office, and critics increasingly portrayed him as indifferent to the suffering of the American people. By the time of the 1932 presidential election, Hoover had become a deeply unpopular-even reviled-figure across much of the country. Carrying only six states, he was soundly defeated by Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York, who promised to enact a slate of progressive reforms and economic relief programs that he described as a New Deal for the American people.

After leaving office, Hoover emerged as a prominent critic of Roosevelt's New Deal programs. He wrote articles and books outlining his conservative political views and warning about the dangers of investing too much power in the federal government. Hoover returned to public service in the 1950s, serving on commissions aimed at increasing government efficiency for presidents Harry Truman (1884-1972) and Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969).

By the time Hoover died at age 90 on October 20, 1964, in New York City, assessments of his legacy had grown more favorable. Noting that after Hoover left the White House the Great Depression continued for eight more years despite Roosevelt's active intervention, some historians have argued for a more sympathetic appraisal of Hoover's presidency.

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Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), America's 31st president, took office in 1929, the year the U.S. stock market crashed, plunging the country into the Great Depression. Although his predecessors' policies undoubtedly contributed to the crisis, which lasted over a decade, Hoover bore much of the blame in the minds of the American people.

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In depth summary of President Hoover's 4 years in office.

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The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

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1929

The 1920s were a period of optimism and prosperity - for some Americans. When Herbert Hoover became President in 1929, the stock market was climbing to unprecedented levels, and some investors were taking advantage of low interest rates to buy stocks on credit, pushing prices even higher. In October, 1929, the bubble burst, and in less than a week, the market dropped by almost half of its recent record highs. Billions of dollars were lost, and thousands of investors were ruined.

After the stock market crash, President Hoover sought to prevent panic from spreading throughout the economy. In November, he summoned business leaders to the White House and secured promises from them to maintain wages. According to Hoover's economic theory, financial losses should affect profits, not employment, thus maintaining consumer spending and shortening the downturn. Hoover received commitments from private industry to spend $1.8 billion for new construction and repairs to be started in 1930, to stimulate employment.

The President ordered federal departments to speed up their construction projects and asked all governors to expand public works projects in their states. He asked Congress for a $160 million tax cut while doubling spending for public buildings, dams, highways, and harbors.

1930

Praise for the President's intervention was widespread; the New York Times commented, "No one in his place could have done more. Very few of his predecessors could have done as much." Together, government and business spent more in the first half of 1930 than in the entire previous year. Still consumers cut back their spending, which forced many businesses and manufacturers to reduce their output and lay off their workers.

In October 1930, with unemployment rising, Hoover created the President's Emergency Committee for Employment (PECE) to coordinate state and local relief programs, and to develop methods for increasing employment in the private sector. But with no direct control of funding for relief or jobs, PECE had only limited success.

As the Depression worsened, Hoover requested that the Federal Reserve increase credit, and he persuaded Congress to transfer agricultural surpluses from the Federal Farm Board to the Red Cross for distribution to relief agencies. Hoover asked Congress for even more spending on public works, and he continued to encourage states and private businesses to generate new jobs.

1931

Economic conditions improved in early 1931 until a series of bank collapses in Europe sent new shockwaves through the American economy, leading to additional lay-offs. In August 1931, PECE was reorganized as the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief (POUR). POUR expanded on PECE's work but also implemented a national fund drive for unemployment relief. The national fund drive raised millions of dollars but proved to be woefully inadequate as unemployment soared to record levels.

Hoover was criticized for almost every program he proposed. His public works projects, designed to create jobs, were characterized as wasteful government spending. His efforts to promote local relief programs, rather than asking Congress to create nationwide relief programs, were viewed as callous disregard for the unemployed.

1932

On January 22, 1932, Hoover established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) to make emergency loans to businesses in danger of default. At first the RFC lent money only to banks, railroads, and certain agricultural organizations, but the scope of its operations was later expanded, and it proved to be an effective tool for stabilizing business and industry. In July 1932, Hoover signed into law the Emergency Relief Construction Act, which allowed the RFC to lend $300 million to the states for relief programs and $1.5 billion for public works projects. Hoover also persuaded Congress to establish Federal Home Loan Banks to help protect people from losing their homes.

By the summer of 1932, the Great Depression had begun to show signs of improvement, but many people in the United States still blamed President Hoover. With the Presidential election approaching, the Democratic candidate, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, exuded hope and optimism, and promised the people a "New Deal." Hoover, defending his record, came across as pessimistic and defeated. In November, Roosevelt won in a landslide.

1933

Four long months intervened between the election and Roosevelt's inauguration. Economic signs that had looked so promising in the summer of 1932 trended downward, unemployment went up, and banks failed at an alarming rate. As weak banks closed their doors, nervous depositors began withdrawing cash from even the soundest banks, but Congress refused to enact Hoover's plans to stem the panic. When Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4, 1933, the banking system was near total collapse, and unemployment had reached 25%. Within days, Congress passed and FDR signed into law the Emergency Banking Relief Act, which stemmed the panic and restored confidence in the financial system - and was almost identical to legislation Hoover had proposed weeks before. Despite all the efforts of Roosevelt's "New Deal," the Depression persisted seven more years, until World War II stimulated the economy with increased demand for commodities and war materials.

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1929 EnlargeDownload Link Wall Street Stock Market Crash, 1929. DownloadPrint Wall Street Stock Market Crash, 1929. The 1920s were a period of optimism and prosperity - for some Americans. When Herbert Hoover became President in 1929, the stock market was climbing to unprecedented levels, and some investors were taking advantage of low interest rates to buy stocks on credit, pushing prices even higher.

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This article is essentially defending Hoover for the economic downfall because alas it was not his fault for these bad circumstances.

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He was a brilliant manager, a wizard of logistics, and an extraordinarily effective humanitarian. How come we remember him as a failure?

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It takes a deep dive into Hooverville in central park where all the homeless people lived and the living conditions

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During the Great Depression, in the 1930s, as millions of people lost their jobs and homes, shanty towns, also known as "Hoovervilles" began to sprout up across the US.

People experiencing homelessness made them from scraps of wood, tin, tar, and cardboard, and named them after Republican President Herbert Hoover, who Americans held responsible for not doing enough to alleviate the Depression.

One Hooverville emerged from a "dust bowl" that was created after a reservoir was drained in New York City's Central Park.

Central Park's Hooverville was by no means the largest, or around for the longest, but something about the small dilapidated shacks surrounded by some of New York's most impressive buildings caught people's imagination.

Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

In the early 1930s, New York City's Central Park was home to a small shanty town that residents experiencing homelessness built.

The ramshackle town was a "Hooverville," named after Republican President Herbert Hoover. Americans held him responsible for not doing enough to alleviate the Great Depression.

Hoovervilles appeared all over the US in the 1930s, some with as many as 15,000 residents. Despite their dilapidated condition, reports highlight how those living in them did their best to keep their homes tidy, and themselves presentable.

One man told a New York Times reporter in 1931: "We work hard to keep it clean, because that is important. I never lived like this before."

The Hooverville in Central Park was not the largest, or around for the longest, but something about that small group of shacks surrounded by some of New York's most impressive, expensive buildings caught people's imagination.

As one New York Daily News caption put it: "From their windows, the 'Haves' may look on the humble houses of the 'Have Nots'."

Here's what Central Park's Hooverville was like.

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Vintage photos show Central Park's Hooverville, a shanty town surrounded by skyscrapers, built by the homeless for the homeless during the Great Depression

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During the Great Depression, in the 1930s, as millions of people lost their jobs and homes, shanty towns, also known as "Hoovervilles" began to sprout up across the US. People experiencing homelessness made them from scraps of wood, tin, tar, and cardboard, and named them after Republican President Herbert Hoover, who Americans held responsible for not doing enough to alleviate the Depression.