Favorite US President Poll #4 1933-1993

[UrbScotty]

Poll question: Favorite US President Poll #4 1933-1993

The top two from each poll go to the final round, sometime early in the week, UNLESS someone gets 50%, in which case they go to the finmal round all by themselves.

All terms started and ended in January, unless otherwise noted.

For obvious reasons, I won't put Clinton against GWB.

[mot78]

1. FDR

Because he managed to kick those Laissez-Fiare social Drawinists to the curb with the New Deal. Even though he wasn't able to end the Depression, it would have been much worse had Hoover gotten four more years (we could have had a Fascist or Communist Revolution, like in Europe)

[UrbScotty]

2. Wait a minute - won't anyone vote for Nixon, Reagan, or Bush?

</sarcasm>

[Rowdyboy]

3. I feel like I need a shower...there's a Reaganite on the board...

:puke: (and I NEVER use this symbol)

[RoyGBiv]

4. FDR...

All the way.

As for the joker who voted for Reagan, well, ick. Or would this person agree with a friend who says he likes Reagan simply because he thinks we need a President who takes more naps?

[genius]

8. There are five of them.

Does anyone believe those votes came from Democrats?

[genius]

9. Question for moderators?

Do you know who those people are? I don't care to know but, if I were a moderator and I had a way to track the votes, I'd be watching them.

[crossroads]

5. Truman...

But I really liked Clinton. He was a smart cool guy IMO!

[hellhathnofury]

16. Diversity of opinion...

as much as FDR is a great president, you can't top the style and determination of Harry S Truman.

[Yupster]

6. A rare case where

the general wisdom is correct. FDR by a bunch. He changed our country dramatically.

Just as an aside, I rank Hoover higher than most. His RFC was a radical departure for the coubtry and made it much easier to accept FDR's more radical New Deal.

[UrbScotty]

10. Yeah, Hoover was pretty charitable

Hoover did a lot for charities (esapecially anti-hunger programs) after leaving office.

Word is, in 1927 or 1928, there was a flood along thge Mississippi, and he waws so concerned about the people in the flooded areas that people thought highly of him, and that boosted him in the 1928 election.

But that's just what I've heard.

[RoyGBiv]

11. Hoover's Irony

The irony with Hoover is that on the surface, it would seem he was well suited to meet the crisis of the Depression.

He had been responsible for feeding and housing people and just generally helping to rebuild Europe after WWI. He was amazingly successful.

One problem with much of what he did do during the Depression was that it was based on what he'd done in Europe. But the circumstances were too different for those strategies to directly translate.

[Yupster]

13. Herbert Hoover brief biography

Hoover wasw born into a poor working class family in Iowa.

He worked himself through Stanford University earning a degree in mining engineering.

When World War I began, he found himself in Europe, and as a citizen volunteer organized the "Belgian Relief Effort" where he got the German and Allied governments to allow American donated food to be brought through the lines to feed occupied Belgium.

After the war, he organized famine relief in Russia during the Russian revolution, and also left an Australian mining job to organize flood relief in China.

He was named Secretary of Commerce under presidents Harding and Coolidge.

He was nominated for president in 1928, won easily and took office in March 1929. The US never had a more honest man in the White House.

The stock market crash six months later signalled the beginning of the Great Depression.

Like his work in foreign lands, Hoover did all he could to encourage voluntary efforts to feed the hungry. He also tirelessly met with business leaders looking for waqys out of the economic slide.

Eventually he would turn away from the US history of laissez faire capitalism, and he involved the federal government in business far more than any president before him.

His Reconstruction Finance Corp. would have been an unthinkable government intervention in business just a few ears before he proposed it. He also began major public works programs such as Hoover Dam.

He lose his reelection in 1932 to FDR who went far further in government involvement in business.

Hoover lived a very long and honorable life. He was asked by presidents Truman and Eisenhower to chair commissions for their governments.

For a while in the early 60's, he lived in a Manhattan apartment (penthouse, townhouse?) in the same building as former VP Nixon and former General MacArthur. Supposedly the three would meet for regular dinners.

He died at age 90 in 1964.

I think he is one of our most underrated presidents.

[UrbScotty]

7. Kick

71

[bemildred]

12. It's a sorry list, isn't it? nt

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

14. FDR was Da Man

Clinton might be the Big Dog (and he is), but FDR was Da MAN.

I teach eighth grade US History and my students are in awe of FDR.

[yardwork]

15. All right. Who voted for Nixon?!

LOL!