Comparing The Shortcomings Of Presidents Hoover And Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States of America wasn’t in its all time great during this time of the twentieth century, for the Great Depression was fairly new. The two candidates, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt had much convincing to do, to show the American people that they were capable of being the President of the United States of America during this very difficult time. The challenges that Roosevelt and Hoover faced during their presidential campaign in 1932, the beginning of the Great Depression, were economic issues and the drastic change in socioeconomic status. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on January 20, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York. His family was wealthy and very well know throughout New York. He was the only child of James and Sara

He became an orphan ot the age of nine. He was then raised by his aunt and uncle from his mother’s side. He attended Stanford University to and in the end majored in geology. It became hard for him to find a good paying job that had to do with his major, so in the end he ended up working in gold mines seventy hours a week. Lucky he was able to find a job in an office soon later, but noticed that this lifestyle just wasn’t for him. He later moved to Australia in 1897 and then China in 1899. There he became very wealthy along with his wife Lou Henry Hoover (They married in 1899 in China). Eighteen years later they decided to move back to America. He was asked by the U.S. Council to help evacuate 120,000 Americans from Europe during World War I. He helped raise money and food donations for all those in need in Belgium. He saved about 9 million people from the attack of the Germans. President Woodrow was very grateful for all his work, he made Hoover the head of the Food Administration. He accepted and then became head of the American Relief Administration. He was loved by all the Americans, and became a huge hero for all of them. In 1928 he decided to run for president. He felt that he was popular enough to do so, and many Americans saw hin as someone capable of fixing any hard problems. Unfortunately, a year later after

The main point that both candidates talked about was how to tackle this monster of an issue. American citizens were extremely anxious to hear what their future leader’s solution was that will fix this massive dilemma. Roosevelt’s New Deal made a huge impact on the restart of America. The New Deal consisted of the three R’s: “relief for the people out of work, recovery for businesses and the economy as a whole, and reform of American economic institution” (Amsco, 503). Hoover, however, argued that this plan would support an activist government, which would endanger traditional ideas of self-government and individual liberty. Not many people listened to this and believed that Roosevelt’s plan would work and went along with it. Because Hoover was previously president, he showed the american people how he works, and clearly that didn’t help the fact that he is part of the reason that the Great Depression started. He made a plan, but that only made the situation worst. This is where FDR saw his chance to convince people to take his side in all of this, and decided to run for president. Going back to the New Deal, it developed the concept of social security, Republic work program, and multipla agricultural programs, which in the end made the economy