After FDR was elected on November 8, 1932, Hoover has been dismissed as one of history’s great losers and FDR as one of its most vaunted heroes. It was a sobriquet that stuck like a dirty rash, and one of the reasons why Hoover’s reputation desperately needs an overhaul. That is certainly the case with Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States and a man who, perhaps unfairly, has taken the historical rap for failing to respond adequately to the social and economic challenges of the Great Depression of the 1930s. But the truly defining experience of Hoover’s early life was the early deaths of both parents by the time he was just nine. During the Great War he also found time to organize a massive relief effort that saved the Belgian people from starvation.

Source: thestar November 10, 2017 11:26 UTC