Herbert Hoover’s Righteous Crusade Against the New Deal: A Conversation with George Nash

Summary: Herbert Hoover's legacy is perhaps forever linked with the failure of the American economy under his presidency after the stock market crash of 1929 and his ensuing defeat by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the election of 1932. Further adding to his difficulties is the charge that he was progressive-lite in his policies before and after the Great Depression. The proper foundation, it follows, for advocates of a renewed conservative focus is Calvin Coolidge, a President who cut budgets and taxes. This discussion with Hoover scholar George Nash begs to differ.<br> <br> Nash, who previously appeared on Liberty Law Talk to discuss the…<a class="moretag" href="http://www.libertylawsite.org/2014/05/27/herbert-hoovers-righteous-crusade-against-the-new-deal-a-conversation-with-george-nash/">Read More</a>