re: #125 HappyWarrior

What’s amazing about Hoover in specific is that he actually was a Progressive but he had as you say was bound by ideology to have a non-interference approach. It’s a good thing in the end that Coolidge did not want a full second term because he would have been worse than Hoover IMO. Coolidge, I think from the little I know about him and Hoover both I feel would have been more bound by ideology. i really don’t like seeing Coolidge’s reputation being revised because frankly he doesn’t deserve it. It’s not just the hands of approach to the economy that bugs me but also the fact that he signed xenophobic legislation that targeted my ancestors and what a lot of conservative admirers of his ignore is that his administration was a little protectionist too though it was not him that signed the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff.

Hoover was a very capable person in everything except the presidency. The work he did in Europe after WWI was remarkable, by all accounts.