Napolean Bonaparte once stated, "A leader is a dealer in hope." Hoover and Roosevelt had very different viewpoints on how to handle the Great Depression. Hoover preferred "rugged individualism," and FDR preferred "helping hand" philosophies. Hoover believed in assisting business in hope that this support would create a trickle down impact which would lead to investment and more jobs. FDR, on the other hand, wanted to provide people with jobs to increase confidence and correcting failures in certain economic institutions, leading to a bubble up scenario. It is ironic that Hoover knew how it felt to suffer in poverty as a child, yet FDR better handled the job of reassuring citizens that he was the man to get the nation out of its slump. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the man to turn to. FDR is the president who dealt hope to the citizens of the United States during the Great Depression and gave them a reason to believe that everything would be okay.
One of Hoover's big mistakes was......
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