Body 2: Herb (Presidency) Herbert Hoover took office following the presidential election of 1928. By promising continued peace and prosperity, he won the election for the Republican Party by a record margin and carried forty states. Hoover voiced in his inaugural address, “I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope.” Ironically enough, the stock market crashed merely eight months following the election and instantly turned his promises of prosperity into a presidency built on lies. The rates of unemployment, business failures, bank closures, and suicides compounded to create an immense pressure on Hoover to take action. Unable to look past his Republican views, Herbert Hoover refused to allow “excessive involvement” …show more content…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt then stepped in to dominate the election of 1932, carrying a total of forty-two states to Hoover’s six. The now 32nd president of the United States claimed, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” and quickly began implementing his New Deal programs in what is known as Roosevelt’s First Hundred Days. His immediate action sharply contrasted Herbert Hoover’s presidency but was very much welcomed among most poverty-struck Americans. FDR’s ultimate goal was to bring the United States out of the Great Depression regardless of the method and despite the threat of entering national debt (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). Thus, a variety of programs were set in place, and bills were passed during the New Deal, lasting from 1933 to 1934, and the Second New Deal, from 1935 to 1938. Some of which include the Public Works Administration (PWA) and Civilian Conservations Corps (CCC) that created job opportunities while reconstructing communities. Others reformed the financial system by insuring bank accounts with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Lastly, the New Deal aided agriculture through the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)(“New Deal”). Similar to Hoover and all presidents alike, Roosevelt’s efforts did not go without criticism, and there continues to be multiple perspectives on how his presidency is viewed remembered as a