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Summer 2004, Vol. 36, No. 2
The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
By Richard Norton Smith and Timothy Walch http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/summer//hoover-1.html

In this story it gives a lot of information about Hoover and how people looked at him as a bad guy instead of a good guy. They also mentioned how Hoover's presidency remains largely an untold story. It also mentioned that it was an uphill campaign for Hoover's Democratic opponent. It says how the depression start and how it mounted to the great depression In a single day, sixteen million shares were traded—a record—and thirty billion dollars vanished into thin air. Also they talk about how people always tried to give him a bad reputation;; But this sports-loving President couldn't relax in public. For example, he stopped one afternoon to watch a sandlot ball game, cheering on the kids at play and informally chatting with them after the game ended. Colleagues urged the President to return the next day and be photographed with the boys, saying it would be good for his public image. Hoover would do nothing of the kind! It was one thing to relax, however infrequently, quite another to perform. "You can't make a Teddy Roosevelt out of me!" he proclaimed, to the despair of advisers.