Why Was Herbert Hoover A Conservative

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Former president, Herbert Hoover is commonly seen as a conservative and Franklin D. Roosevelt is referred to as a liberal. However, the terms liberal and conservative are abstract terms and people do not completely conform to them. So, there are parts of Hoover that are liberal, while a majority of his beliefs are conservative, and pieces of Roosevelt are conservative when he is mostly liberal. Their respective political ideologies were shown through their responses to Americans who struggled through the Great Depression. Herbert Hoover understood the consequences of deficit spending and that people were barely surviving. He addresses these concerns in order to appease US citizens, he acknowledges the problems, but he is limited to the

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