Herbert Hoover outranked G.W. Bush?
Hoover's Remove from Reality
I was watching 60 minutes last night, and when Andy Rooney came on he talked about the past presidents. A group of 65 historians had come together to rank the former presidents from best to worst. The worst was James Buchanan, who was also a bachelor: I agree with Rooney that no lady would want to be associated with America’s worst president.
Then he went on about the Bushes. George H. was listed as 18th, while his son, our most recent G.W., was ranked 36th. What shocked me was that Herbert Hoover was ranked 34th. He was the man in charge when the Great Depression hit.
What’s surprising for all of his problems, at least Bush admitted things were getting worse, he even made sure we had those stimulus checks. While there is a great deal more he could have done, he still did a world more than Hoover.
While people in Kentucky were eating wild-grass, people in Chicago were living out of garbage piles, a million mean were living out of railway cars, Hoover had the audacity to so that nothing was wrong. Americans were living better than they ever had, even the hobos were better fed than ever.
Hoover was a man too far out of touch with not only the people, but with human spirit. He also didn’t believe that people should ask the government for money. He was known as the great humanitarian for a while, organizing and managing relief supplies to European victims in WW1 and to Americans that had suffered disasters before he became president. However, he didn’t think that the funds were from government aid; he believed they were private donations.
Hoover had too much a blind eye driven from his own instinct of making it on your own. Unfortunately, there comes a time when you need to relent such thoughts for the sake of the public good. Hoover was a let down of epic proportions. So although I don’t hold Bush in regards, I cannot agree with considering Hoover to be the better president.
