COMMENTS:
I'd give Herbert Hoover another shot, not because he was a great President, but because he's been unfairly demonized for decades as the President who "caused" the Great Depression, when a number of the relief programs he started were continued or modified by Roosevelt. Hoover was just probably an average President who was unequal to the enormous task at hand, and, by all accounts, not a bad fellow personally, rather than being the cold technocrat image he was saddled with by the New Deal supporters.
Time has proven he wasn't entirely wrong on a number of his policies, and he could have a chance at rehabilitation. Actually, his strict fiscal policies would be a welcome relief compared to the idiocy in Washington of the past 2 decades and the past 6 years in particular.
Herbert Hoover was a competent president who was unfortunate enough to be in office when the Great Depression struck. Presidents get the credit or the blame for the economy -- but they simply do not have the power to change much.
I agree that Hoover gets too much blame for the Depression.
Without it, historians believe, he would have been a mainstream, average president.
FDR, Truman, Kennedy, in that order.
During his run in office, nothing of great import happened. That's enough for me.
Definately FDR in this day and age. We need a wartime pres. with a little smarts, diplomatic skills, and balls. Or possibly good old Thomas J, to bring the country back to it's founding principles.
^You picked two opposites! Are you a fan of the black and white cookie?
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