The two of them had known each other for quite some time. During world war i, Franken Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson. Do you want to talk about what hoover did during world war i . Sure. Herbert hoover was the head of the u. S. Food administration. It had to essentially provide food to the soldiers going to europe and hoover was able to provide the necessary food by getting americans to voluntarily reduce consumption by 15 . He did this by appealing to american housewives to sign pledge cards where they would hooverize, which meant every day of the week, you gave up a certain essential component. Meat, wheat, sugar, fat. You had meatless mondays and wheatless wednesdays. Hoover was able to use that as a stopgap for growing the food steps foodstuffs were required. Fdr was very impressed with the work hoover had done. Franklin roosevelt was trying to convince hoover to become a democrat. There was some sense of maybe we can get him as part of our p
College is going to have more instances if we keep it where the winner of the popular vote loses the presidency. It means that 30 of americans do not reflect the diversity will elect 70 of 100 senators. We know that natural residential patterns as well as in the way in which we do districts in the Supreme Court, that basically brushed aside doing anything about partisan gerrymandering will distort the house even for them. What voters want wont be reflected there. The courts are going to take us further and further away from popular will whatever it is with those elections. We are going to have some work to do to prevent a real crisis and legitimacy in the system that goes beyond some of these issues that we have talked about and even transcends some of these deeper divisions along racial and ethnic and regional lines. Thank you very much for that and for sobering us in such a powerful way. Ed, the last word is to you. The era of American Civil War in emancipation is far worse and we ca
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Prof. Voguit good morning. We reached the point where we will see the story of two men that are going to run for president in 1932. Herbert hoover is the last in a long series of republican president s. Since the civil war, there had only been to democrats. One was grover cleveland, the only president ever elected not consecutively twice where the terms are not consecutive, and woodrow wilson. In the 1920s, we had three consecutive republican president s with Warren Harding calvin coolidge, and herbert hoover. I see him as being, at the least, one of the unluckiest residence in American History. He is elected in 1928, sworn in in march of 1929, and the stock market crashed in october. He gets blamed. People homeless live in hoover bill, if you have no shoes, you have hoover shoes. If you had oatmeal breakfast lunch, and dinner, you had another hoover meal. It was lamenting the fact that the bottom had fallen out of your life. In your view and that you and the view of the American Peopl